Early Reveal: Next Week’s New Yorker Cover Upcoming New Yorker covers are usually posted early Monday morning, but occasionally we get an advance look. Barry Blitt is the cover artist for next week’s issue. _______________________________________________________________ Exhibit Of Interest: Underground Heroes: New York Transit In The Comics Opening today at the New York Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn, this fabulous exhibit
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of September 18, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Visitors to the Spill (and social media) have already had the weekend to digest the cover of the latest issue — it features the looming top-noggin of North Korea’s leader. The cover artist, Eric Drooker told Michael Cavna in a Washington
Read moreEvent of Interest: Not OK: Great Cartoons That Weren’t Good Enough; Cartoon Companion’s Latest Ratings; Next Week’s New Yorker Cover Revealed
Event of Interest: Not OK: Great Cartoons That Weren’t Good Enough What fun! An exhibit of cartoons that did not make the cut at The New Yorker. Many of the contributing artists are newbies at the magazine, either in the print version and/or on the magazine’s website. “Not OK” refers to the two letters every New Yorker cartoonist (and every
Read moreBeing Eustace Tilley; Roger Angell Remembers James Stevenson; Oscar Time! Liza Donnelly Back on the Red Carpet Live Drawing the Oscars, Drooker’s Oscar Cover, Eckstein’s Oscar Wielding Eustace
Eustace Tilley is of course a fictional character — commonly referred to as The New Yorker‘s mascot. There is a suggested backstory to Tilley himself in Lee Lorenz’s Art of The New Yorker: 1925-1995; there are best guesses elsewhere as to why Rea Irvin (see below) decided to submit the cover to Harold Ross to adorn Ross’s inaugural
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