Noted that this week’s cover (above right) is by Harry Bliss, one of the New Yorker‘s cartoonists. Noted because the majority of the magazine’s covers were once handled by its cartoonists (somewhat more than 60% a year by my iffy calculations). The number of cartoonists contributing covers these days can be counted on one hand: Mr. Bliss, Roz Chast, Bruce
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of January 29, 2018
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Always a pleasure to see a colleague’s work pop up as a New Yorker cover as I open up the digital edition early Monday morning. We (“we” meaning the New Yorker‘s contributing cartoonists) used to be responsible (my unofficial estimate) for
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of January 22, 2018
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I enjoy the little drama of seeing the new New Yorker cover pop up on the screen early Monday morning when I go to the digital issue; sometimes there is no Monday morning drama because the cover has been released (online)
Read moreThe 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 —
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