The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Always a pleasure to see a colleague’s work pop up as a New Yorker cover as I open up the digital edition early Monday morning. We (“we” meaning the New Yorker‘s contributing cartoonists) used to be responsible (my unofficial estimate) for
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of January 8, 2018
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. And off we go — a new year! Hundreds of new cartoons to look forward to in 2018’s 47 issues (there are five double issues). On yesterday’s Spill I showed the back flap copy from the Third New Yorker Album, published
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch on Tuesday: The New Yorker Issue of January 1, 2018
This new issue of the New Yorker, dated January 1, 2018, brings the magazine ever closer to its 93rd birthday in February. The year kicks off (for the magazine) reassuringly with a George Booth cover. Here’s the magazine’s Cover Story with Mr. Booth. Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t help but think the art contains just a bit of
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of December 4, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Back in February of 1996, the New Yorker celebrated its 71st anniversary with a “Special Women’s Issue.” Of the 23 cartoonists in the issue, 20 were men. The three women cartoonists were Victoria Roberts, Roz Chast, and Liza Donnelly. The cover, a
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