Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).
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A Trusty Summertime Quartet I’ve written before about the summertime New Yorker reading that awaits when my cartoonist colleague (and wife) Liza Donnelly and I make our annual trek to Maine. In that piece about summer reading I didn’t mention the quartet of older New Yorker magazines that also remain year after year in “Vacationland” (we continue working while here, so
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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
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: A Thurber blast from the past (link here for a brief interview with Thurber’s granddaughter, Sara Sauers). The Cartoonists and Cartoons: This is a semi-archival issue, republishing pieces (Joseph Mitchell, Susan Orlean, Vladimir Nabokov, etc.) from the magazine’s
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