The Tilley Watch Online, January 26-30, 2026 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com Daily Cartoon: Ali Solomon, Ken Levine, Tom Chitty, Matt Reuter (twice). See them here. Shouts & Murmurs: Ali Fitzgerald’s “America! Mamdani Goggles And Other Products To Maximize A Brief Surge In Idealism” Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “The President
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Friday Spill (On Thursday Night): Early Cover Release; Drew Dernavich Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Early Cover Release The New Yorker occasionally early posts next week’s cover. Here’s The February 9th cover, by Till Lauer. The issue will be published Monday morning. ________________________________________________________ Drew Dernavich Returns To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Drew Dernavich, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2002, returns to the Cartoon Caption Contest this week. Listen here (It’s episode #236
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Thurber Thursday: Thurber & Hemingway
I recently picked up Mary Dearborn’s Ernest Hemingway: A Biography (Knopf, 2017). With biographies, I usually go right to the index to check out New Yorker intersections and found plenty on Lillian Ross (because of her well-known portrait of Hemingway, “How Do You Like it Now, Gentlemen? The Moods Of Ernest Hemingway” that ran in the issue of May 13,
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Wednesday Spill: Event Of Interest…Akeem Roberts At The Brooklyn Public Library; A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Into The Issue Of January 25, 1936; Product Watch…Steinberg At Walmart
Event Of Interest: Akeem Roberts At The Brooklyn Public Library From The Brooklyn Public Library website, this notice of a February 24, 2026 appearance by Akeem Roberts, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2019 (the issue of July 8th). Visit his website here. Note: Mr . Roberts is one of 52 New Yorker artists profiled in the book
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