New Yorker Cover Artist, Michael Roberts: 1948-2023 Michael Roberts, who died this past Monday, was brought into The New Yorker during the Tina Brown era as the magazine’s fashion director. He eventually contributed 23 covers to the magazine. Below are several pieces of interest about Mr. Roberts’s life and career. From The New Yorker, April 4, 2023: “Michael Roberts’s Joyous
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…Steinberg’s “Illuminations” I could’ve titled this post “The Big Freeze.” It’s about falling out of love with Steinberg’s work, and then, ever-so-slightly falling back. The book shown above, according to text on the copyright page, “was published [in 2006] on the occasion of the exhibition Saul Steinberg: Illuminations”…and therein lies the personal reason for the
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Above: Lee Lorenz’s swivel chair at The New Yorker, 25 West 43rd Street, late 1980s. Cartoonists showing their work would sit opposite him. Photo: Liza Donnelly Lee Lorenz: An Appreciation Lee Lorenz, the former New Yorker art editor and cartoonist who passed away a week ago today at age 90, did me a huge favor forty-five years ago when he
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Dan Misdea Guests On Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw’s Cartoon Pad Pod Mr. Misdea began contributing to The New Yorker in the July 26, 2021 issue. Listen here! Visit his website here. Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. Michael Shaw began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. ___________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, June 6-11, 2022
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