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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A Box Of Drawings Cartoonists are often asked, “What do you do with all the drawings you do that are rejected, that don’t sell?” When asked, my response has always been something
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A Group: Barbara Shermund, Edward Koren, Sam Gross A trio of original work by three major New Yorker contributors. From top to bottom: Barbara Shermund, Edward Koren, and Sam Gross. As time goes by, and I see more and more of Barbara Shermund’s work (whether in The New
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