The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Visitors to the Spill (and social media) have already had the weekend to digest the cover of the latest issue — it features the looming top-noggin of North Korea’s leader. The cover artist, Eric Drooker told Michael Cavna in a Washington
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The Monday Tilley Watch
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Expecting something political on the July 31st cover it was a surprise when Javier Mariscal‘s water’s edge pastoral popped up on my screen (I’m looking at the digital version of the magazine; I’ll look at the print version when
Read more50 Years Ago This Week…In The New Yorker
A Summer of Love issue of The New Yorker begins with Peter Arno’s 98th cover for the magazine (out of 101). Arno’s color palette in his last years had turned (mostly) brighter, his composition (mostly) a little more casual. This cover is an excellent example. Within the magazine we find an array of graphically balanced cartoons appearing on the pages
Read moreRemembering James Stevenson; Bob Eckstein’s Daily News Op-Ed; Book/Artist of Interest: Aaron Sopher
Remembering James Stevenson From The Block Island Times, July 7, 2017, “Remembering Jim Stevenson: And How He Drew on Block Island” — this piece about the late great Mr. Stevenson’s Block Island work.
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