Catching Up On The Daily Cartoons Stuff occasionally happens here that’s outside the ever-present world of New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists. This week I’ve been pre-occupied with Monday’s arrival at Spill headquarters of a dumpster. Right now it’s sitting out on the street within eyesight of where I work, almost begging me to continue filling it up. No worries:
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Kids in Summer clothing at play on what looks like stryofoam snow among barren trees under pink clouds — or are they pink blossoms? (yes, they are blossoms, according to the title given to the
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Video Of Interest: Emma Allen & Suerynn Lee “How To Draw Dysfunctional Relationships” is the latest in a series of videos featuring The New Yorker cartoon editor, Emma Allen (left) and one of the magazine’s cartoonists. This time ’round it’s Suerynn Lee, who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2019. _______________________________________________________ Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons Today’s: Maddie
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After breezing through a book or three of Thurber’s drawings, it’s sometimes fun to settle down with either of the two books of his letters. The first published, Selected Letters Of James Thurber (Atlantic, Little & Brown, 1981) was edited by his second wife, Helen Thurber, and Thurber’s friend (and Atlantic editor), Edward Weeks. Although Selected Letters was published half
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