Here’s to you, New York Public Library, in honor of and thanks for your current exhibit celebrating The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary, A Century of The New Yorker. Below are some of the magazine’s earliest drawings featuring the New York Public Library lions, Patience and Fortitude . Above: a spectacular Barbara Shermund spot drawing from the issue of February 2,
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A 1937 New Yorker Bound Volume With Tilley’s Farewell Occasionally I’ll buy a New Yorker bound volume even though some of the issues within the volume are already in the Spill library. The idea of sitting with a book has always been more enjoyable (for me) than with a single issue. Both are fun and
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The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of August 14 -18, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Sarah Kempa, Maggie Larson, Lynn Hsu, Anjali Chandrashekar, Emily Bernstein. Daily Shouts: Zoe Si, Adam
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On this extremely warm Thurber Thursday I was driven (well, I drove myself) to the Spill’s collection of New Yorker Albums (of drawings, or if you’re feeling more contemporary casual, cartoons). It occurred to me this morning that I did not know which Album contained the first Thurber appearance. You might think it appeared in the 1st album, simply titled
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