The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Barry Blitt, with a comment on the exiting of a President. I couldn’t help but think of this classic Charles Addams drawing from the issue of August 28, 1948. Here’s a short Q&A with Mr. Blitt about
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Happy 85th Edward Koren! Birthday wishes to one of the greatest New Yorker artists, Edward Koren, born on this day in 1935. Mr. Koren, now in his 58th year of contributing to the magazine, is The New Yorker‘s longest running regular cartoonist contributor. Here’s Mr. Koren’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of
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WSJ’s Charles Preston, 1921 -2020 Charles Preston,The Wall Street Journal’s “Pepper…and Salt” cartoon editor passed away last Friday at age 98. For 70 years (yes, 70!) he edited the “Pepper…and Salt” feature. The Journal‘s obit quotes Mr. Preston as once saying: “I’ve looked at more cartoons than anyone in the history of mankind.” A number of New Yorker artists found
Read moreBeginning today and continuing through July 23 you’ll be able to stream (for ten bucks. Cheap!) the terrif documentary film, Stevenson: Lost & Found, directed by Sally Williams. All the info here. Last year there was a special screening in Brooklyn for New Yorker cartoonists — a splendid time was had by all (and it was an opportunity for a
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