The Gray Lady Covers The New York Public Library New Yorker Centennial Exhibit From The New York Times, March 5, 2025, “A Weighty and Whimsical Century of The New Yorker’s Archives” In an (almost) otherwise fine article devoted to the New York Public Library exhibit “A Century Of The New Yorker” it amazes me (and saddens me) that the magazine’s
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has a Sketchpad). Two duos, that we know of, and one newbie: Gina Deluca who is the 2nd addition to the cartoonists colosseum this year and the 167th addition since
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______________________________________________________________________ New Yorker Cartoonists Cover The 100th Anniversary Issue Cover Above: My colleague, Felipe Galindo (aka Feggo) carried around a copy of the 100th anniversary issue over several days of New Yorker partying and asked cartoonists he ran into to sign the cover. He has generously shared it here. More 100th: From The New York Times Style section, February 26,
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On this day, the 21st of February, the date on the very first issue of The New Yorker, I thought it would be fun to line up each anniversary issue celebrating another ten years that followed that first number. Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley cover was gilded in 1995, and sat out the 2005, and 2015 anniversary covers, but thankfully returned
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