Cover artist: Alan Dunn _______________________________________________________________________________ The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of June 3, 2024 The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: scoot The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No
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Wandering around Ebay, I came across an unknown (to me) Thurber piece, “I Can’t Make Anything Work” in a magazine, For Men (June 1939). According to Edwin Bowden’s Thurber Bibliography, this was its only appearance (i.e., not collected). Oddly(?), a piece titled, “I Break Everything I Touch” was published in 1941 in another magazine, The Man. That piece is included
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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: woof Thought we might see an April Fool’s cover this week. But no. So here’s one by the late great William Steig: And now back to the present issue… The Cartoonists And Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No
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Thurber Thursday: Latest Addition To The Spill Archives…A Thurber Scarf Over the past few years I’ve followed the Richard Farrar New Yorker cartoon scarf pieces posted on Attempted Bloggery. Stephen Nadler, the person behind the AB‘s curtain has shown us scarves decorated with Thurber drawings, Anatol Kovarsky drawings, Mischa Richter drawings, William Steig drawings, and Charles Addams drawings (a recent
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