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.
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The Monday Tilley Watch
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Are these the dog days of summer? According to Wikipedia, Sweden’s dog days are bracketed by the dates July 22nd through August 23rd. That seems reasonable for the United States as well. My
Read moreA Roomful of Cartoonists
As anyone could guess, a home inhabited by two cartoonists is bound to have a lot of cartoons around. Not just our own, but cartoons from our New Yorker family; cartoonists we’ve only known by their work, cartoonists we’ve just met, and cartoonists we’ve known for a very long time.
Read moreCharlie Hankin Speaks; Christoph Niemann Profiled on Netflix’s “Abstract”; Eustace Tilley’s Non-Anniversary Cover Appearances
This piece on Charlie Hankin, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2013: “Catching Up with New Yorker cartoonist and Park School grad Charlie Hankin” (The Baltimore Sun, March 4, 2017) Link here to Mr. Hankin’s website. ________________________________________________________________________________ Christoph Niemann, who’s contributed nearly two dozen covers
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