An atypical Daily week in that it was un-Trumpian. But…Emma Allen, the New Yorker‘s cartoon editor posted a slide show review of Trump cartoons from 2018. See it here. The Daily Cartoon New Yorker contributors this week : Maggie Dai, Jason Chatfield, Elisabeth McNair, Peter Kuper, and Brendan Loper. And over on Daily Shouts, the contributing New Yorker cartoonists: Maggie
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New Yorker Cartoonists Holiday Party
Decades ago, in the William Shawn era, New Yorker cartoonists celebrated the holidays in-house (specifically, in-department). They’d show up at the office and drink punch provided by the art editor Lee Lorenz and his assistant, Anne Hall. Cartoonists would sample rum balls brought in by their colleague, Henry Martin. During the Tina Brown years the holiday party went big time,
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker (Double) Issue Of December 24 & 31, 2018
The Cover: The last issue of the year is also the “Power Issue” (the fellows depicted on the cover certainly reflect various measures of power). Read what the cover artist Barry Blitt had to say about his Sherlocklike cover. The Cartoonists in the issue: As it’s the end of the year, I’ll dispense with counting the number of illustrations. Let’s
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With this week being a big election moment and all, I was expecting the just published New Yorker cover would be political. And maybe it is in a strange way — maybe we need a calm moment in the storm. Still, I found myself looking very closely at cover artist Eric Drooker‘s bank of leafy trees thinking maybe I’d spot
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