“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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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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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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Six Covers In his thirty-four years as a New Yorker contributor, James Thurber did six covers for the magazine. The covers, shown above, are dated, left to right: February 29, 1936, April 29, 1939, April 27, 1940, July 5, 1941, October 3, 1942, February 9, 1946. You might remember that the February ’36 cover was brought back as a cover
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