Hooray for Hollywood? This week’s cover (artist: Chris Ware) reminds us — not that we need reminding –that Tinsel Town is a troubled town. Shout out to the Cartier folks for the pretty street lamp that greets you as you open the magazine. Nice also to see the photo of David Bowie (however much I disagree with this current usage
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of February 26, 2018
Always glad to return to weekly issues of the magazine after doubles. This new issue sports a cover that seems like the sum of the equation: Olympics + North Korea =. Here’s what cover artist Mark Ulriksen had to say about it on newyorker.com The Olympics + North Korea equation continues with the very first spot drawing appearing on the
Read moreCartoon Companion Rates the Latest Crop of New Yorker Cartoons
Like clockwork, The Cartoon Companion‘s Max and Simon are back with their takes on the cartoons in the New Yorker‘s latest issue (February 8th ’18) . In a first (I think!) the CC boys give a blue ribbon to two cartoons in the issue (one of them, I was happy to see, was this Frank Cotham gem). Go here to
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of February 5, 2018
An ice skating cover (titled “Figured Skaters”) on this week before the magazine’s 93rd birthday issue. On the way to the cartoons I’m sensing less graphics and more text in the Goings On About Town section. Or is it just my imagination. Take away the weekly near full page photograph and the magazine seems edging to its graphic roots. For
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