Darrin Bell Wins Pulitzer For Editorial Cartooning From The Washington Post, April 15, 2019, “How the Trayvon Martin tragedy led to Darrin Bell’s historical editorial cartooning Pulitzer.” Mr. Bell began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Link to his website here. (Above: Mr. Bell, and one of his New Yorker cartoons, published July 9, 2018) _____________________ The Cover: Loveis
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of July 30, 2018
The early release Barry Blitt Trump flat-on-his-face cover (above, right) was mentioned here last week, so onward we go to the brand new issue. Fifteen cartoons in the issue, eighteen illustrations. With five of those illustrations full page, I’d say the magazine is most definitely in a new age of illustration (the old age was during Tina Brown’s reign as
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of November 20, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Wow, three weeks in row without a political cover. This latest cover, of two children chalking out a hopscotch pattern on the ground, has a title, as have all covers since Tina Brown instituted the practice. I’ve always wondered why it’s
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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