Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of January 3, 2022; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week of December 20-27, 2021

  The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Anthony Russo delivers a wonderful cover for this first issue of the new year (a double issue).    The Cartoonists & Cartoons:  Twenty cartoons, twenty cartoonists (the Spill counts duo efforts as one cartoonist). Duos: There’s

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Weekend Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind Deep Dives The Issue Of Oct. 22, 1932; The Tilley Watch Online, December 6-10, 2021; Ken Krimstein’s NYT’s Book Review “Sketchbook”

A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The October 22, 1932 Issue A fun Sunday read from the always informative blog, A New Yorker State OF Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine. The issue’s cover is by Peter Arno. Mr. Arno’s entry on the A-Z: Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8, 1904, New

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Thursday Spill: Thursday’s & Wednesday’s Daily Cartoonist; Daily Shouts Cartoonist

Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Thursday’s Daily Cartoon: from J.A.K, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. Wednesday’s Daily Cartoon and cartoonist, Ngozi Ukazu, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2020. Visit her website here.   ___________________________________________________________ Daily Shouts Cartoonist From newyorker,.com cartoonist, Sarah Kempa (with Kerry Elson, and Ysabel Yates):  “Other Times This Little Sign Guy

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Weekend Spill: Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest: Drew Dernavich; The Tilley Watch Online: November 22-26, 2021

Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title I don’t have a good sense of where most of my drawings come from. Mostly, they just show up, and I put ’em down on cheap paper. The above drawing does have a small bit of a past — at least the caption does. My mother was a fan of Frank Sinatra. While

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