The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of October 15-19, 2018; Cartoon Companion’s Latest Ratings; A Rare New Yorker Cartoon Anthology; More Spills

 It was a less Trumpian than usual  week on the Daily. The contributors: Kim Warp, Jeremy Nguyen, Jason Chatfield (with Scott Dooley) and Lila Ash, with two.  [Note: Ms. Ash’s work has yet to appear in the print magazine]. And over on Daily Shouts, the contributing New Yorker cartoonists were Edward Steed, Liana Finck, Tim Hamilton, Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell. To

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Latest New Yorker Cartoons Rated; More Spills: Bliss, Finck, Chast

Latest New Yorker Cartoons Rated Cartoon Companion is back with a look at all 18 cartoons in the latest New Yorker (the issue of September 24th). Seth Fleishman’s itchy grim reaper was awarded “top toon” … Read it all here. _____________________________________ …Here’s a piece about Good Rosie!, Harry Bliss’s latest children’s book (Kate Dimillo wrote it, Mr. Bliss illustrated it).

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The Monday Tilley Watch, the New Yorker Issue of September 10, 2018; Cartoon Happenings At The New Yorker Festival

 “The Style Issue”  with a Kadir Nelson cover — the second Nelson cover in three weeks. It’s titled “Savoring Summer” (and again, I question why the New Yorker‘s covers need to be titled. Shouldn’t covers speak for themselves, so to speak? This cover certainly does).  The cartoons: Thinking there’d be a bevy of cartoonists in this mid-September issue (last week’s

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