The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: chess The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, thirteen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a Sketchbook). One duo, that we know of. One newbie: Marie Pax, who is the 11th addition to the cartoon stadium this year, and the
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Attempted Bloggery On The Paul Goldberg Cartoonograph Collection From the Paul Goldberg collection: a number of postcard sized 1967 autographed and cartoonographed pieces (including a handful of New Yorker artists, or, in Sam Gross’s case, soon to be New Yorker artist). Attempted Bloggery shows & tells here. Sam Gross’s A-Z Entry: Sam Gross Born 1933, Bronx, NY. Died, May
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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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