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 Steinberg & Steig Around thirty years ago I thought I’d begin keeping all the issues of The New Yorker with Steinberg or Steig covers in their own box, separate from other single issues I was collecting (hoarding?). This was a very bad idea. The biggest problem with that boxing idea is that I didn’t stick with
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The Tilley Watch Online, July 3-7, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: this cartoonist, Ellis Rosen, Akeem Roberts, Zoe Si, Colin Tom. Daily Shouts: Kendra Allenby. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Former President’s Mug Shot Unearthed” ________________________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The Spill Library This 78 year old
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