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
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of November 13, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Surprise, surprise — two non-political New Yorker covers in a row. Last week was John Cuneo‘s wonderful big falling leaf; this week, in a debut appearance, Jenny Kroik gives us a lovely bookstore scene (it’s titled “At the Strand” but really
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker issue of September 25, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. As this is the Style Issue I decided to tackle the issue while listening to Starring Fred Astaire, a set of songs recorded by Mr. Astaire between 1936 through 1940. What a great photograph. What style. What a great top hat.
Read moreAppearance of Interest: Harry Bliss; Attempted Bloggery Begins a Gregory d’Alessio Appreciation; Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 15: Abner Dean
Appearance of Interest: Harry Bliss Harry Bliss, a New Yorker contributor since 1998, will speak at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History on September 18th. All the details here. __________________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery Begins a Gregory d’Alessio Appreciation Gregory d’Alessio, a New Yorker contributor — he contributed from 1934 – 1940 — who doesn’t get much attention is finally getting
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