— From The New Yorker, December 23, 1985 ____________________________________________________________________ Over my near half-century at The New Yorker I’ve paid tribute to James Thurber — sometimes in small ways — the art hanging in rooms — to more obvious ways (such as here and here). In this week’s New Yorker there’s another drawing of mine that came about from
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Liza Donnelly & Heather Cox Richardson On Tracking Santa Claus In another of their video series, long-time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly joins historian Heather Cox Richardson in this holiday entry. See it here! ___________________________________________________________________________ Addams Among The Holiday Stationery Late yesterday afternoon, I was walking, somewhat in a holiday shopping daze, through our local bookstore when my eyes caught
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The New Yorker’s First Christmas Issue –Above: S.W. Reynold’s cover — his second of a dozen for The New Yorker The not quite year old New Yorker was still finding its sea legs by the end of 1925. Peter Arno’s Whoops Sisters had yet to appear; Ellin Mackay’s “Why We Go to Cabarets” had just recently broken through and started
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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 Cartoonists and Cartoons A double issue, ringing out the old year, and ringing in the new. Fifteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a Sketchpad, and Barry Blitt has an illustration). One duo, that we know of: Joseph Dottino
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