The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: Tilting
The Cartoonists:
Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. No newbies, no duos (that we know of). Sam Gross, the magazine’s 5th longest active cartoonist contributor (his first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of August 23, 1969) is represented by a wonderful drawing.
The Cartoons:
A number of drawings in this issue caught my eye, with Barbara Smaller’s when I grow up cartoon (page 26) starting things off on a good foot (her’s is the first cartoon in the issue). A right on the money caption; so good.
Applause also for Felipe Galindo’s Batman selecting a balloon (p.40). Bonus: the drawing is given just the right amount of space on the page.
P.C. Vey provides hilarity with yet another go-to cartoonist scenario: the guy being tossed off the end of the dock by a couple of tough guys (p.42). Excellent work from Mr. Vey.
ADT’s (Adam Douglas Thompson) until the wheel is invented drawing (p.54) is fab. Just shows to go you that, for cartoonists, the caveman inventing the wheel scenario is the gift that keeps on giving.
Finally, Harry Bliss’s lost in a painting drawing is a stand out. Good sizing on the page. Selfishly, I would’ve loved to see Mr. Bliss’s art on the wall even larger. Y’know, let it play across the page, so that we’d have to take an extra second to find Timmy.
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The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Rea Irvin’s above iconic heading for The New Yorker‘s Talk Of The Town has been away from its perch since May of 2017 when it was replaced by — gasp! — a redraw. Read about it here.
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David Sipress Has A Website (Finally!)
Most every New Yorker cartoonist has had a website for quite some time….David Sipress, a contributor since 1998, was one of the last holdouts.
Now we have DavidSipress.com, with all the goodies we’ve come to expect on a cartoonist’s website.
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Edward Sorel In Virtual Conversation
The one-and-only Edward Sorel will be in virtual conversation with editorial cartoonist Signe Wilkinson on December 9.
Mr. Sorel will certainly be discussing his forthcoming memoir, Profusely Illustrated, out November 23rd from Knopf.
Mr. Sorel’s Spill A-Z entry:
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Edward Sorel (self-portrait from a strip appearing in The Nation following the death of Marlene Dietrich. Drawing used by permission of Mr. Sorel). Born 1929. New Yorker work: 1990 – . All of Mr. Sorel’s books are of great interest; Unauthorized Portraits (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) is particularly essential. Website: edwardsorel.com