Note: Hoping yesterday’s tech issue has been fixed! Some material (the Comic-Con book news) from the semi-posted-Saturday Spill is repeated here. The San Diego 2025 Comic-Con Souvenir Book…And an Editing Glitch Addressed The 2025 Comic-Con online-only Souvenir Book can be read here. I was honored to be asked to write a New Yorker cartoon-centric piece (“A Century of Ink
Read more
Early Release: Barry Blitt’s Cover for Next Week’s Issue As they do every so often, The New Yorker has early released its next cover. In a short piece on its website, the magazine notes that Mr. Blitt has borrowed “the visual imagery of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”
Read more
The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in July of 1978. This week’s cartoons.
Read more
Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles The New Yorker magazine put on the Ritz last night (or, more specifically, put on the Jean’s) for its 100th birthday party. Happily, the weather cooperated — no freak winter storms, sub-freezing temps, or torrential rain — just a good old fashioned chilly dreary Winter’s night in Manhattan. My favorite kind
Read more