Janis Joplin’s Thurber From the Dept Of I Didn’t See This Coming: Reading through Dwight Garner’s New York Times review of the new Janis Joplin biography, “Janis,” by Holly George- Warren: “She named a dog Thurber, after James Thurber, the New Yorker humor writer.” — left: Thurber and Ms. Joplin ___________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon From Barbara Smaller,
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of September 9, 2019
The Cover: It’s the Style Issue this week….thus the bountiful polka dots on Malika Favre’s eighth cover for the magazine. A Q&A with the artist here. If you link to the Q&A you’ll see the polka dot dress swirl. I can’t see that many polka dots (and red) on the cover without thinking of Peter Arno’s March 23, 1935 New
Read moreRobert Crumb And Aline Kominsky-Crumb At Columbia This Fall; The Tilley Watch Online, July 15-19, 2019; Fave Photo Of The Day: Some New Yorker Folks At The San Diego Comic Con; NYTs Opinion Piece Of Interest: “The Vicious Fun Of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle”
Robert Crumb And Aline -Kominsky Crumb At Columbia This Fall Columbia University’s Curator For Comics and Cartoons, Karen Green, announced at the San Diego Comic Com that Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Peter Bagge will be appearing this Fall at Columbia University…no further info at the moment. Here’s the article from The Beat, July 20, 2019, “Things Go Off
Read moreFave Photo(s) Of The Day: Drew Friedman And Robert Crumb
Here are a couple of fun photos, taken in NYC yesterday: On the left is Drew Friedman, and on the right is Robert Crumb. What brought them together is the book Mr. Crumb is holding, The Book Of Weirdo, an anthology of Weirdo magazine (created by Mr. Crumb in 1981, it was published until 1993). The anthology is coming this
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