The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. This week’s cover (by R. Kikuo Johnson, who we learn from the Contributors page teaches cartooning at the Rhode Island School of Design) is of robots on their way to wherever robots go to. One has an on-the-go cup of coffee(?)
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The Official Jack Ziegler Website Is Up and Running! There Is No Way You Won’t Laugh At These Cartoons
Fans of the late very great Jack Ziegler now have a place to visit online courtesy of his daughter, Jessica. Among the fun stuff: a bibliography, and cartoons categorized under such headings as Bars and Booze and Other Vices, Sex and General Naughtiness, and Issues. See it all here. Below: a Ziegler cartoon from the Arts section To read
Read moreInk Spill’s Morgue
Fifteen or more years ago when I was just beginning to gather material for my biography of Peter Arno, a good friend who worked at The New York Times offered to get hold of what that newspaper had on Arno in its morgue (soon after he reported back, that, unfortunately, the Arno files were missing). I don’t think I’d
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The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. The week begins with the eclipse eclipsing political news, if only for a moment. Good luck with that, eclipse. As noted here last week the cover of the new issue (dated August 28, 2017) has received more notice than usual. Read
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