Back in 1983, Ink, Inc. produced this fun set of playing cards, The Deck. Jack Ziegler handled the art for the cardbacks and the Jokers, with Arnie Levin doing Spades, Roz Chast Diamonds, Lee Lorenz Clubs and William Steig providing Hearts.
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of November 27, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I’ve spent a little time this morning looking through New Yorker Thanksgiving covers over the years. My all-time favorite — it’s the only cover I ever detached from the magazine (for shame!) so I could hang it on the wall —
Read moreThe Spill Talks Mirror Balls and Tracking Porcupines with Seth Fleishman
I took notice when Seth Fleishman’s first cartoon, uniformed cows standing over a table, appeared in the New Yorker in the issue of April 4, 2016 (it appears below). Sometimes a new cartoonist’s work (the drawing itself and/or the caption) will appear slightly awkward (my first New Yorker drawing fits both those categories), but Mr. Fleishman’s work seemed like it
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of October 23, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. This week’s cover (by R. Kikuo Johnson, who we learn from the Contributors page teaches cartooning at the Rhode Island School of Design) is of robots on their way to wherever robots go to. One has an on-the-go cup of coffee(?)
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