A nice story about a Yale alum giving his cartoon collection to Yale’s fabulous Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (I spent time there researching material for my Arno biography). Read the piece here!
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of January 15 2018; Happy 114th Birthday, Peter Arno
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I don’t know about you, but after I’ve looked through the cartoons of each new issue of The New Yorker I have the kind of immediate reaction I have after sitting through a movie. As I begin walking up the aisle,
Read moreA Canadian New Yorker?; The Not Yorker?; The Surreal McCoy’s Graphic Novel; Peter Kuper In Conversation at the New School; Liza Donnelly: A Funny Sea Change; New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor to Speak at Yale
A Canadian New Yorker? From CBC News (Montreal), November 26, 2017, “Le Montrealer Imagines a Local Take on The New Yorker’s Covers” — this interesting piece on a Canadian exhibition of New Yorker inspired work. With a related piece on similarly inspired exhibits. ____________________________________________ The Not Yorker? From Artsy, November 28, 2017, “The Website Giving Rejected New Yorker
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From the Department of Self-promotion: Beginning today and on each Sunday leading up to the April 19th publication of Peter Arno’s biography, I’ll post something Arno-related I picked up during these past fifteen years of research and writing. First up, as you can see, is this wonderful cover for the 1939 Yale Junior Prom. Arno attended Yale for just one
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