The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker Cover: Back to school supplies, courtesy of Barry Blitt. Cartoonists: Cartoons: Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There are two duos this issue: Kaamran Hafeez & Al Batt, and Pia Guerra & Ian Boothby).
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You’re Kidding, Right? Here’s what the cover of the original edition of James Thurber’s Let Your Mind Alone! looks like. It was published exactly eighty-four years and one day ago (for those not wanting to do the math: September 8, 1937). I think it’s quite a beautiful cover, but then I think almost every Thurber book cover is beautiful. Here
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: The second embracing couple cover of the year, this one tied into 9/11. The Cartoonists: Twenty cartoons, twenty-one cartoonists. The twenty-first is Ed Steed who takes care of Spot drawing duties in this week’s issue. The Spill
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists In The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: politics. The Cartoonists… And An Anniversary: Sixteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a “Sketchbook”). No newbies, no duos (that we know of). One of the sixteen drawings is from the great Sam Gross. Mr. Gross’s very first
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