The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. October already? Well yes — that’s the way it is on magazine covers. Always one week ahead of reality (or if it’s a monthly, one month ahead of reality). The cover of this weeks issue, graphically speaking, reminded me of Gretchen
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker issue of September 25, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. As this is the Style Issue I decided to tackle the issue while listening to Starring Fred Astaire, a set of songs recorded by Mr. Astaire between 1936 through 1940. What a great photograph. What style. What a great top hat.
Read moreLatest New Yorker Cartoons Dissected on Cartoon Companion; Chast’s New Book Reviewed; Exhibit of Interest: “Unnatural Election”; Conversation of Interest: Art Young Authors Discuss the Artist; Event of Interest: Julia Wertz in Brooklyn
Latest New Yorker Cartoons Dissected On Cartoon Companion The Cartoon Companion is back with a look at the cartoons in the latest issue of The New Yorker. The CC’s “Max” and “Simon” inspect cartoons by Joe Dator, J.A.K., BEK, Barbara Smaller, and Paul Noth, among others. While on the site be sure to read part 2 of their interview with
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker, Sept. 4, 2017: The Television Issue
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I can think of no better way to kick-off The New Yorker’s very first “Television Issue” than with a cover by Bruce Eric Kaplan who is in the New Yorker/Television Hall of Fame because he wrote the famous and exceptionally funny
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