After spending time in the early years of the New Yorker Albums these past few Sundays I thought it would be fun to skip a few decades and look at how the magazine celebrated its 50th anniversary. I love the simplicity of this Album, its no-frills approach. Beginning with the no-nonsense cover featuring the title (set in the so-called Irvin
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of November 20, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Wow, three weeks in row without a political cover. This latest cover, of two children chalking out a hopscotch pattern on the ground, has a title, as have all covers since Tina Brown instituted the practice. I’ve always wondered why it’s
Read moreJack Ziegler New Yorker Covers: Hits & Misses; The Tilley Watch Online
Jack Ziegler’s daughter, Jessica has posted five covers submitted to, but alas, rejected by The New Yorker over the course of Mr. Ziegler’s long career (one of them appears above). To see the others and to sign up for the Ziegler newsletter go here. ____________________________________________________________ It’s been a interesting week on newyorker.com. Some highlights: Emily Flake weighing in on the
Read more84 Years Ago: The Sixth New Yorker Album of Cartoons
I love all of the New Yorker Albums that have come out in the magazine’s 92 years, but this one I like maybe just a teeny-tiny bit more than many of the rest (partially due to the fact that it was a gift from Jack Ziegler, back in the days when I was building a set of all the albums,
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