The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Trump by Blitt The Cartoonists And Cartoons: The first single issue of the year. Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover). No duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: lotsa water in the subway The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists. No newbies. Two duos, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). The longest active cartoonist in this issue is Roz Chast,
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Debris caught in bare tree branches. (To me) the cover seems more like something that would appear in the Fall. Just sayin’. The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Seventeen cartoonists, seventeen cartoons.
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Last Friday, my New Yorker cartoonist colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly and I, made a trip west to Columbus, Ohio to join in the festivities surrounding the awarding of the Thurber Prize For American Humor (the winner was Steven Rowley for The Guncle). Our part was to deliver the following (after a few minutes of on-stage banter): “As long time
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