An Algonquin Grouping I thought it would be fun, on this (finally) not scorching hot morning, to gather some Algonquin Round Table related books off the shelves, and bring them together for a group photo along with a couple of original portraits (that’s The New Yorker’s founder and first editor, Harold Ross, as drawn by Garrett Price on the
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The Tilley Watch Online, July 8-12, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ellis Rosen, Ali Solomon, Adam Douglas Thompson, Ivan Ehlers, Sarah Kempa. Shouts & Murmurs: Eugenia Viti, Adam Douglas Thompson. Sketchbook: Sofia Warren Link to The New Yorker‘s Humor & Cartoons section _________________________________________________________________
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Charles Saxon’s Neckties Adam Gopnik’s “The Knotty Death Of The Necktie,” (a Weekend Essay on newyorker.com) has this to say about the late great Charles Saxon: If the closet is old enough, its ties will show a whole social history of the pallid fifties turning into the ambivalent sixties turning into the florid seventies. The New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon captured these
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Video Interview Of Interest: Ivan Ehlers Ivan Ehlers (on the left above) sits for an interview on Tosh Show. This is a particularly fun and informative video — lots of New Yorker cartoonist talk. You can see it here. Mr. Ehlers began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2021. Visit his website here. __________________________________________________________________ Bob Eckstein’s Post-Debate New
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