The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of April 15, 2019; Book Events Of Interest This Week…And A Live Podcast Of Interest; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Lila Ash; Today’s Daily Shouts By J.A.K. & Julia Rothman

The Cover: Play ball!…or…ball in play!  A graphically pleasing cover by Mark Ulriksen.  Read about it here.  The Cartoonists: Note: Brooke Bourgeois is making her New Yorker print debut. Ms. Bourgeois is the 7th new cartoonist added to the stable this year and the 31st added under cartoon editor Emma Allen’s watch. The Cartoons:  The Spill spotlight falls on three

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Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist(s): Christopher Weyant & Ellis Rosen; Today’s Daily Shouts: Colin Stokes & J.A.K. On Paul Ryan & A.O.C.; Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons Book Tour Begins April 9th

Today’s Daily Cartoonists/Cartoon Today’s Daily is a team effort from Christopher Weyant and Ellis Rosen. Mr. Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Mr. Rosen began contributing to the magazine in 2016. Link here to Mr. Weyant’s website. Link here to Mr. Rosen’s website. _____________________________ Today’s Daily Shouts: Colin Stokes and J.A.K. Today’s Daily Shouts, “Paul Ryan’s Advice

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Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Elisabeth McNair; More Spills…Chast Honored, Eckstein’s Book Tour For “The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons” Includes Fellow New Yorker Cartoonists Leighton, Smaller, Acocella, Downes, Donnelly, Borchart, and Shanahan

Today’s Daily cartoon, Spring + allergies, is by Elisabeth McNair, who began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2018.  Link here to her website. ________________________ …Roz Chast will be awarded an honorary degree by Hamilton College.  Read here. …Bob Eckstein‘s new book, The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons will be out soon. Several of the events on

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New Yorker Cartoonists Holiday Party

Decades ago, in the William Shawn era, New Yorker cartoonists celebrated the holidays in-house (specifically, in-department).  They’d show up at the office and drink punch provided by the art editor Lee Lorenz and his assistant, Anne Hall. Cartoonists would sample rum balls brought in by their colleague, Henry Martin.  During the Tina Brown years the holiday party went big time,

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