The Cover: Ed Steed returns with his second New Yorker cover, and like his first (August 26th of this year) it’s a winner. Read the magazine’s Q&A with Mr. Steed about his cover here. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: A number of drawings of special note in this issue: A fab mouse drawing (it’s on page 30) by the great Sam
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of September 9, 2019
The Cover: It’s the Style Issue this week….thus the bountiful polka dots on Malika Favre’s eighth cover for the magazine. A Q&A with the artist here. If you link to the Q&A you’ll see the polka dot dress swirl. I can’t see that many polka dots (and red) on the cover without thinking of Peter Arno’s March 23, 1935 New
Read moreBlitt and Kuper on Society of Illustrators Panel; Gil Roth Roth Interviews Glen Baxter; Another Look at Abner Dean; Felipe Galindo In Conference on Political Satire in Latin America; A Case For Pencils’ Pencils
Last Minute Notice! “Can Art Affect Social Change?” Barry Blitt and Peter Kuper, among others, will discuss tonight at The Society of Illustrators. Details here ____________________________________________________________________ Check out Gil Roth’s wonderful interview with Glen Baxter on Mr. Roth’s Virtual Memories podcast here. (Mr. Baxter talks about coming to The New Yorker in the Robert Gottlieb era). While on
Read moreConversation of Interest: Emily Flake & Glen Baxter
Circle the date! Emily Flake in conversation with Glen Baxter on September 19th. Details here. Ms. Flake’s cartoons were first published in The New Yorker in 2008, Mr. Baxter’s in 1989. Mr. Baxter’s latest book, Almost Completely Baxter: New and Collected Blurtings, was published in May. Ms. Flake’s latest, Mama Tried, was published in the Fall of 2015.
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