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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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of April 13, 2020; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
To my readers: This being the time we’re in, the online issue has not yet been posted (as of 11:00am), so what follows is a shortened version of The Monday Tilley Watch. Long-time visitors might recall I prefer first sightings of new cartoons in situ, but in order to provide at least some basic info, I’ve gone to the slideshow
Read moreThe Tilleys They Are A-Changin’… The New Yorker’s 95th Anniversary Issue, February 17, 2020
The cover above, by Rea Irvin, appeared on the very first issue of The New Yorker — thereafter it showed up for every anniversary issue from 1926 through 1993. If you happen to have a bunch of those anniversary issues and fan them out on your floor — such as I did back in 2008 — they look pretty neat:
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of January 20, 2020
Random thoughts on the cartoons (and other stuff) in the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Diana Ejaita. Read a Q&A with her here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Another issue with a healthy dose of cartoons, taking place in far and afield scenarios including a yoga class (courtesy of Lila
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