_____________________________________________________________________________ The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Twenty cartoons, twenty cartoonists. No newbies. No duos, that we know of. The longest active contributing artist in this issue is Edward Frascino, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of September
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__________________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: New Yorker Cartoonists Prepare For Their Group Photo At Magazine’s Centennial Celebration At The Society Of Illustrators From Attempted Bloggery, this short video of New Yorker cartoonists assembled last Thursday for “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” _____________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 13-17, 2025 An end of the week
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: The Last Flower A big thank you to Sara Thurber Sauers for this University of Iowa Press edition of James Thurber’s The Last Flower. Originally published in November of 1939 by Harper’s, The Last Flower has shown itself to “have legs.” Legend, according to Thurber himself, has it that the entire book was completed
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Peter Arno, In The New Yorker, 99 Years Ago This Week Looking through the January 23, 1926 (nearly one year old) New Yorker, you might expect it to be chock full of captioned drawings (a caption, for our purposes, is defined as text, enclosed in quotes, said by a character in the drawing). Or, if the issue wasn’t chock full,
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