We’ll have to wait til April for it, but judging by the “Look Inside” available on Amazon, The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons will be well worth the wait. Published by Princeton Architectural Press, the anthology was edited by New Yorker cartoonist, Bob Eckstein. Mr. Eckstein has packed the pages with New Yorker contributors such as Sam Gross (whose
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The Tilley Watch, Monday, November 19, 2018
The Cover: It’s not just the Technology issue this week, but also the Thanksgiving issue; Roz Chast’s cover blends the two. It got me thinking about New Yorker Thanksgiving covers of the past, and looking through them I found this one, by Alajalov from 1949. As with Ms. Chast’s cover, it blends the Thanksgiving table scenario with (then) relatively
Read moreThe Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of October 29, 2018
It’s not a trick: this post about the October 29, 2018 New Yorker looks and feels and reads suspiciously like the Spill’s now defunct Monday Tilley Watch, but it’s not a Monday Tilley Watch…I think. So often in the past 90+ years of The New Yorker ‘s existence, an issue dated October 29 (or 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, or
Read moreVideo of Interest: Christopher Weyant, Bob Eckstein, and David Borchart
From C-Span2, video of a recent appearance at the Milford Readers & Writers Festival by Bob Eckstein, Chris Weyant and David Borchart. See it here.
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