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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Two Upcoming Events of Interest From the Carelton Newsroom. On March 20, 2021, Seth will deliver the 2020-2021 Munro Beattie Lecture, “The Inkwell’s End”…all the info here. Seth (Gregory Gallant) began contributing to The New Yorker in 2002. From Dartmouth Events, “An Hour With Harry Bliss”April 1, 2021. Mr. Bliss has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1998. ________________________________________________________________________
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