The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Barry Blitt’s latest, released early The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover, and Ali Fitzgerald has a Sketchpad). No duos that we know of, and no newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist
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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 Issue: This is the second of four planned special issues celebrating The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary. The Cover: Seeing this week’s oval-centric cover, I immediately recalled some of The New Yorker covers contributed by the late great Pierre Le-Tan.
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Now That’s A Cover! It took nearly seven years into The New Yorker’s first decade before the editors were comfortable enough (secure enough?) to play with their famous cover masthead. It seems fitting that the artist to do it was Rea Irvin, the fellow who adapted Allen Lewis’s type face for The New Yorker. It came to be known
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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 Twelve cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Ivan Ehlers has a Sketchpad and Barry Blitt has the cover). Two duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in this issue is Mick Stevens, whose
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