One of the things cartoonists like to do, besides work on cartoons, is gather with other cartoonists. Here’s a crew of Zoomin’ New Yorker cartoonists that gathered yesterday: from top left, going clockwise: Robert Leighton, Bob Eckstein, Ken Krimstein, and Pat Byrnes. Mr. Leighton began contributing to The New Yorker in 2002; Bob Eckstein in 2007; Ken Krimstein in 2000;
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of May 4, 2020
The Cover: In Francoise Mouly’s Q&A with this week’s cover artist, Chris Ware, she informs us that the issue is anchored by “a kaleidoscopic account of a single day in New York.” And so we see a cover, in Mr. Ware’s patented style, loaded with snapshots of the city — a cover nearly devoid of people. The Cartoonists: Liza Donnelly,
Read moreThe Weekend Spill: Article Of Interest: Mary Gauerke; Cartoons In The Time Of Coronavirus; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of March 16-20, 2020
Article Of Interest: Mary Gauerke From Finger Lake Times, March 21, 2020, “Looking Back — Geneva artist broke barriers” — this piece on Mary Gauerke, who had three drawings published in The New Yorker: November 17, 1956 / April 13, 1963 / October 16, 1965. _________________________________________________________________ Cartoons In The Time Of Coronavirus From Yahoo.com, March 20, 2020, “Cartoonists are
Read moreEarly Release! Next Week’s New Yorker Cover; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; More Spills…
The third early release New Yorker cover in a month — surely a sign of the times. With the news on overdrive these days I again urge the magazine to consider running an online Daily Cover much as they run a Daily Cartoon and Daily Shouts. In next week’s cover, Eric Drooker recalls the iconic (c.1930) photo of Grand Central
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