Despite the snow scene outside my window and the forecast for another wallopin’ of snow here in a few days, I know Spring is just around the corner. The latest New Yorker cover — the second by Jenny Kroik — is in the same realm of wishful thinking. Her cover is a welcome respite from politics, which are always just around
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of March 5, 2018; Cover Update: The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons
Hooray for Hollywood? This week’s cover (artist: Chris Ware) reminds us — not that we need reminding –that Tinsel Town is a troubled town. Shout out to the Cartier folks for the pretty street lamp that greets you as you open the magazine. Nice also to see the photo of David Bowie (however much I disagree with this current usage
Read moreThe Tilley Watch Online, Week of February 11, 2018; Blitt in Canada; More E. Simms Campbell; More Spills: Whither the New Yorker Encylopedia of Cartoons Cover?…Cartoons No More at The Harvard Business Review?
New Yorker cartoonists contributing to this week’s Daily Cartoons: Jason Adam Katzenstein, Brendan Loper (twice), Carolita Johnson, Peter Kuper and Sara Lautman. (No contributing New Yorker cartoonists over on the Daily Shouts this week). The subjects: politics (of course!), Valentine’s Day, and the Olympics. See it all here. ________________________________________________________________ Blitt in Canada From Blogto, “The illustrative Wit of Barry Blitt”
Read moreThe 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
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