The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: Kids in Summer clothing at play on what looks like stryofoam snow among barren trees under pink clouds — or are they pink blossoms? (yes, they are blossoms, according to the title given to the piece). A somewhat ominous feel to the scene. Read a Q&A with the artist, Ryo Takemasa, here.
The Cartoonists:
Fifteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has a Sketchbook). No newbies, no collaborations (that we know of).
The Cartoons:
From Hartley Lin, a confessional scenario (it’s on page 67). We see confessional scenes on television, in movies, and, for some, in real life, but it’s rarely played out in The New Yorker‘s cartooniverse. A search of the magazine’s database and its Cartoon Bank site turned up just three confessional drawings (shown below). P.C. Vey’s drawing of July 2, 2012 incorporates a confessional within a judge’s bench. Kim Warp’s drawing, published April 12, 2010 actually includes a confessional booth — showing its exterior. Paul Noth’s drawing was a Caption Contest offering, published September 21, 2015.
Other drawings in this latest issue that caught my eye: Mick Steven’s very large box of stuff (page 21), Ellis Rosen’s fab hardwood floor cartoon (page 18), and Amy Hwang’s cow browsing a rack of cow bells (page 50).
A small handful of the cartoons seem (some definitely are) pandemic-related, including the aforementioned Mick Stevens’s drawing, Victoria Roberts’s drawing (page 13), Julia Suits’s (page 57), and Suerynn Lee’s (page 57).
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The Rea Irvin Talk Masthead Watch
Rea Irvin’s classic Talk Of The Town masthead design, shown above is, sadly, still missing, having been replaced by a – gasp!- redraw in May of 2017. Read about it here.