Video Of Interest: Frank Cotham From WKNO -TV, “A Conversation With Frank Cotham.” Mr. Cotham’s first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of December 13, 1993 (read a Spill piece about the 20th anniversary of that debut here). ____________________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 4-8, 2024 An end of the
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Thurber Thursday: The Dog Wish; Video Of Interest…Barry Blitt; Latest Addition To The Spill Archive…A William Steig Paperweight
“Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog” — James Thurber ________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest…Barry Blitt From The New Yorker, November 4, 2024, “How The Artist Barry Blitt Turns Politics Into Cartoon Cover Gold” Mr. Blitt has been contributing to The New
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Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of October 21, 2024; Ed Steed’s Book Launch
The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: released last week. The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Michael Lukk Litwak, who is the 18th addition to the print magazine’s cartoon colosseum this year, and the 162nd
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Wednesday Spill: Two More Shelves Of Books By New Yorker Authors (Benchley To Roth)
I had such a good time writing about some of the books by New Yorker authors on the Spill‘s shelves in yesterday’s post, I thought I’d continue today (still leaving off the “A” authors). As with yesterday’s books, these are only books by New Yorker authors, not books about them (next week, I’ll show some of the books about New
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