A different Monday Tilley Watch, as we’re midway through a double issue time frame. So, instead of looking at a brand new issue of The New Yorker, we’ll look at an honest-to-goodness Tilley watch. The Spill likes to mess around with various “Tilley” usages (The Monday Tilley Watch, The Tilley Watch Online), so when this actual Tilley watch
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“Good Provider” New Yorker Cartoons On Attempted Bloggery Thanks to Daniel Borinsky via Stephen Nadler’s terrif Attempted Bloggery we have this survey of “good provider” New Yorker cartoons over the decades. Read it all here. — above: Barney Tobey’s “good provider” cartoon from The New Yorker, June 25, 1984 ___________________________________________________________________ The New York Times Notes Felipe Galindo’s “Portrait Of My
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Arno Changes His Mind Stephen Nadler’s latest Attempted Bloggery post, “Peter Arno’s Changing Point Of View” takes an interesting look at graphic decision-making by one of The New Yorker‘s grand masters. I love seeing alternate drawings of published work by cartoonists — sometimes the unpublished version appears “better” than the finish. Here’s a battered but beautiful Arno drawing from Mr.
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The latest addition to the Spill library is perhaps the rarest. Aces! — All Aces! produced in 1926, when The New Yorker was not yet two years old, is yet another hard cover book put out by the magazine’s business department, and the earliest I know of (Corey Ford’s The Making Of A Magazine, also produced in 1926, had its
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