The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker (Double) Issue Of April 26 & May 3, 2021; A 1957 Edward Frascino Drawing Is Found; Bishakh Som’s “Apsara Engine” Wins LA Times Best Graphic Novel/Comics Of 2020

The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Bruce McCall downsizes the Chrysler Building. Here’s a link to a brief Q&A with the artist (bonus: within this Q&A there’s a link to his current exhibit of work at The New York Historical Society). The Issue:

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Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of March 22, 2021

The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Linier’s cover (below right) seems nearly a close-up, flowers-in-a-cityscape-wise, to Ed Steed’s cover of September 14, 2020: The Cartoonists Seventeen cartoonists, seventeen cartoons; no newbies, no duos (that we know of). The Cartoons Five cartoons immediately attracted

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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of May 11, 2020: Let Us Now Praise George Booth’s Auto Repair Shop Cartoons

The Cover: The ninth coronavirus-themed cover out of the last ten issues. Here’s a Q&A with cover artist, Christoph Mueller. From the Dept. of Broken Records: sorry, but do New Yorker covers really need titles? This one would be fine standing all by itself. The Cartoonists: Let Us Now Praise George Booth’s Auto Repair Shop Cartoons In a departure for

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