The Cover: Without heading to the Table Of Contents and reading the title for this cover I’m going to guess it’s a comment on city noise. I’ve always felt New Yorker covers should work stand alone, without explanation, or description. This was the practice until Tina Brown’s revamp of the magazine, beginning with the issue of October 5, 1992. Okay,
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker, October 14, 2019
The Cover: Ed Steed returns with his second New Yorker cover, and like his first (August 26th of this year) it’s a winner. Read the magazine’s Q&A with Mr. Steed about his cover here. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: A number of drawings of special note in this issue: A fab mouse drawing (it’s on page 30) by the great Sam
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of September 16, 2019
The Cover: Ivan Brunetti returns with a cat person/dog person cover. Read here what he had to say about the cover. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: I spend the wee hours of every Monday morning looking through the latest issue of The New Yorker (it’s posted online at around 4am). I look at every cartoon at least twice, then I close
Read moreThe Wednesday Watch: Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; New Market Watch…Air Mail; Donnelly Live-Draws Dem’s Debate; A Susanne Suba Re-Issue
Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Desert drinks by Lila Ash, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2018. __________________________________________________________________ New Market Watch Considering the narrowing avenues for cartoonists , it’s always a brighter day when a cartoon-carrying publication is launched. We now have two (online-only) issues of former Vanity Fair editor, Graydon Carter’s Air Mail to peruse. You’ll find
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