The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of February 20 – 24, 2023
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: J.A.K., Brendan Loper (twice this week), David Sipress.
Daily Shouts: Ivan Ehlers, Julia Wertz.
Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Biden Beset By Balloons”
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The New Yorker, 44 Years Ago This Week
This freezing snowy grey late February morning seemed like a good time to step into The New Yorker time tunnel. I happen to have a couple of bound volumes of the magazine sitting right by the card table that is my desk. Luckily, one of the volumes includes issues from February. February of 1979 that is.
I opened the volume and went to the last issue.
A nice wow! moment. As much as I have had an up-and-down relationship with Steinberg’s work these past few years, this particular cover was yet another reminder of what a brilliant artist he was. The cover’s a stunner.
Looking through the issue’s cartoons I noticed several names that don’t get a lot of attention in The New Yorker cartooniverse: John Norment, and David Pascal.
First, Mr. Norment’s drawing:
And Mr. Norment’s A-Z entry:
John Norment (photos above courtesy of John Norment’s niece, Mandy Teare) Born, Lebanon, Tennessee, 1911. Died, Westport, Connecticut, 1988. New Yorker work: fourteen drawings and two covers, between 1969 and 1982. Mr. Norment had a long, wide ranging career, working as assistant art director for Esquire, an an editor of 1000 Jokes Magazine and For Laughing Out Loud at Dell. Later, one issue of a magazine called A Million Laughs. He was very instrumental publishing Gahan Wilson’s early work.* More information about his life and work can be found here: johnnorment.com/about.htm
Now for Mr. Pascal’s drawing:
And here’s Mr. Pascal’s thin A-Z bio (note to self: find out more about him!):
David Pascal Born, 1918, New York, NY, died, March 3, 2003, NYC ; New Yorker work: 1954 -1990.
One other cartoon I came across I’d like to mention. It’s by the late great Bill Woodman. I love how his cartoon was given the width of the page, appropriately enough for a drawing playing off of a horizontal.
Mr. Woodman’s A-Z entry:
Bill Woodman Born October 30, 1939, Bangor, Maine. Died, February 12, 2022, Maine. New Yorker work: November 10, 1975 – January 6, 2003. Collection: Fish and Moose News (Dodd, Mead, 1980). Website..…Ink Spill’s Woodman Appreciation.