The Tilley Watch Online, April 29 – May 3, 2024
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: Shannon Wheeler, Barbara Smaller, Brooke Bourgeois (with Scott Polhemus), Anjali Chandrashekar, J.A.K..
Shouts And Murmurs: Ali Fitzgerald, Emily Flake (with Wendi Aarons), (Film By) Marc Philippe Eskanazi* (with Eli Burnstein).
*Mr. Eskanazi was at one time an assistant in The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Department. He also collaborated with several New Yorker cartoonists resulting in published New Yorker cartoons. From an interview I conducted with Mr. Eskanazi in 2013 about collaborating cartoonists:
Marc Philippe Eskenazi: In our case [“our” being Liam Walsh & Ben Schwartz- ed.], I cannot draw very proficiently, and don’t really have the patience to tidy up a drawing the way I would develop and refine a piece of music or writing. But looking through thousands of cartoons each week, I couldn’t help but develop a few ideas here and there. So I’d sketch them out in a notebook I had since high school.
MM: “How did the collaboration begin..,i.e., who made the first move and why?”
Eskenazi: Ben, Liam Walsh, and I often went to get coffee or lunch, and we would help develop each other’s ideas, theirs for cartoons, mine for stand-up. Eventually I showed them my terrible drawings, and they liked some of the jokes. Ben and I sold two, and Liam and I have sold one which may run around Halloween next year if it survives the harsh Summer.