The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of April 9, 2018

Here’s  Bruce McCall speaking about his gluten-free-gluten cover, along with three cover sketches (a nice touch). And here are the cartoonists in the issue: A slightly different Monday Tilley Watch this week…I’m listing my first response as I (electronically) flip through the issue, as if the drawings are flashcards. Bruce Eric Kaplan…rodents and a tiger — I really like the

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New Yorker Cartoonists Live; Obscure Otto Soglow; Book of Interest: Cartoons From Maine; Drawing Dogs w/ Booth

New Yorker Cartoonists Live Event of interest tomorrow night! This just posted on Instagram a few hours ago by the magazine’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen:  Emily Flake, Jeremy Nguyen and Farley Katz will join Ms. Allen at Dover Street Market. Somebody who’s going please take photos and send to the Spill. __________________________________________________________________  Obscure Otto Soglow Stephen Nadler, over at Attempted

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Wall-to-Wall Cartoonists at David Remnick’s Hello Goodbye Party

The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick threw a Hello Goodbye party last night (Hello, Emma Allen, the magazine’s new cartoon editor; Goodbye, Bob Mankoff, the former cartoon editor). It was, by far, the largest gathering of New Yorker cartoonists since  1997, when forty-one gathered for an Arnold Newman group photo (it appeared in the magazine’s first cartoon issue, December 15,

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John Klossner Pencilled; Peter Kuper’s Thoughts on Trump & Mexico

John Klossner joins the now lengthy list of New Yorker cartoonists spotlighted on Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils. Check it out! Above: Mr. Klossner’s drawing board ___________________________________________________________________________________________ From Design Arts Daily, January 18, 2017,  Peter Kuper‘s thoughts on Trump and Mexico. See it here: “Oaxaca Journal, V. 16”  

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