Podcast of Interest: How To Read Nancy’s Karasik & Newgarden; Blog of Interest: A New Yorker State of Mind

How To Read Nancy authors, Karasik & Newgarden join Gil Roth on his Virtual Memories Show.  Listen here. _______________________________________________________________________ Blog of Interest: A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue of The New Yorker Magazine A look at the issue of December 8, 1928 —  wherein appears one of the most famous of all New Yorker cartoons:   Read

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Most Popular Instagrammed New Yorker Cartoons; Site of Continued Interest: A New Yorker State of Mind; A Reminder: Tomorrow is Nancy Night at The Society of Illustrators

The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen presents Instagram’s most liked New Yorker cartoons of 2017 (by # of Instagram likes, of course). The list includes cartoons by (in no particular order here) : Farley Katz, Peter Kuper, Liana Finck, Paul Noth, Jeremy Nguyen, Roz Chast, Ben Schwartz, Kim Warp, Mort Gerberg, Emily Flake, Charlie Hankin, Alex Gregory, Maddie Dai,

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Liniers, the Musician; PR: More Nancy, More Blitt; Bob Eckstein’s Daily News Op-Ed

Liniers, the  Musician “The Argentine Cartoonist Who Moonlights As A Rock Nerd” — a piece about Liniers, the fellow responsible for the above 2016 anniversary cover. Read it here.  ______________________________________________________________________ More Nancy, More Blitt …From the Vineyard Gazette, “When Brevity  Underscores Genius, A Good Laugh Is Around the Corner”  — a piece on Karasik & Newgarden’s How To Read Nancy. 

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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of December 11, 2017; Event of Note: “How To Read Nancy” Authors at The Society of Illustrators; A “More Spills” Correction Re: Jack Ziegler

The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Up above, in red, I use the word “meandering”; after this morning’s look- through of the new issue  I double-checked my usage.  “Aimless” is a good part of the definition (as I sensed when I first used the word “meandering” to

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