The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of April 1-5, 2024
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: Peter Kuper, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, David Sipress, Liam Walsh, Johnny DiNapoli, Sarah Kempah.
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Helen Hokinson Quote of The Week: “They’re Really As Ridiculous As I Draw Them…”
Here’s a snippet of a December 1933 article, “Helen Hokinson Takes Characters From Life” wherein Ms. Hokinson speaks about her famous “lunch ladies.”
Below: an example of Hokinson’s “ridiculous” lunch ladies, from The New Yorker, April 24, 1948.
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Helen Hokinson Born, Illinois,1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. All of Hokinson’s collections are wonderful, but here are two favorites. Her first collection: So You’re Going To Buy A Book! (Minton, Balch & Co, 1931) and what was billed as “the final Hokinson collection”: The Hokinson Festival (Dutton & Co., 1956). According to a New Yorker document produced during Harold Ross’s editorship (1925-1951) rating their artists, Ms. Hokinson and Peter Arno occupied a special category unto themselves above all others.