From last night’s Society of Illustrators “Cartoonists In Conversation,” l-r: panelists Asher Perlman, Zoe Si, moderator Liza Donnelly, and The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma AllenĀ (behind them, on the wall, two New Yorker originals: one by Helen Hokinson and the other by Otto Soglow. They’re just two of the 100+ New Yorker originals included in the Society’s current exhibit,
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Tuesday Spill: That Was Then, This Is Now
This week’s republication of a 1936 James Thurber New Yorker cover sent me over the moon (honestly, any Thurber art on the cover would’ve). It also sent me back, via The New Yorker‘s online archive to that year’s covers, and cover artists. Anytime I look at issues of many years gone by I experience a that was then, this is
Read moreWeekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, August 14-18, 2023: 89 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker
The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of August 14 -18, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Sarah Kempa, Maggie Larson, Lynn Hsu, Anjali Chandrashekar, Emily Bernstein. Daily Shouts: Zoe Si, Adam
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Weekend Spill: Alan Dunn’s “New Yorker War Cartoons” Cover; Latest ToonStack; A Mini-Fisher Fest; Most Recent Addition To The Spill’s Cartoon Library
Alan Dunn’s New Yorker War Cartoons Cover Alan Dunn might be best remembered for his signature densely styled charcoal and grease pencil drawings that appeared for nearly a half-century in the New Yorker, from 1926 through 1974. Or he might be remembered as the most prolific New Yorker artist with the most published cartoons until William Steig overtook him
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