On this happy occasion of the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker, it’s instructive to look at the second issue of the magazine, dated February 28, 1925. Was it perhaps too soon for Harold Ross to look back (one week!) critically on his debut issue? From everything I’ve read about Ross, the answer is no. It has been said that
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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 very Chris Ware-y design (which makes sense, as Chris Ware is the cover artist this issue). His cover somewhat reflects this issue’s “Cartoons & Puzzles” theme (I see a ton of puzzle references). Go here to see
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Audio Of Interest: “Evening At Anaheim” — A Play By James Stevenson Here, via Youtube, is the audio for a live presentation of the late James Stevenson’s Evening At Anaheim” Mr. Stevenson’s Spill A-Z entry: James Stevenson Born, NYC, 1929. Died, February 17, 2017, Cos Cob, Connecticut. New Yorker work: March 10, 1956 – June 16, 2003. Stevenson interned as an
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More Bill Lee In a follow-up to Steven Heller’s blog post of a couple of days ago, D.D. Degg over on The Daily Cartoonist fills in more Bill Lee puzzle pieces, but still no answer to “Whatever Happened To…Bill Lee?” (My own interactions with Mr. Lee began and ended in the late 1970s after he, in his role as OMNI‘s
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