And now we’re into the second double issue of the summer. Sure does make the season seem to fly by. When the next new issue appears it will be mid-August, when kids begin gathering their back-to-school supplies. Having spent many summers at the (New) Jersey shore I found Tom Gauld’s somewhat cinematic cover an excellent piece of work. And speaking
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of January 15 2018; Happy 114th Birthday, Peter Arno
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I don’t know about you, but after I’ve looked through the cartoons of each new issue of The New Yorker I have the kind of immediate reaction I have after sitting through a movie. As I begin walking up the aisle,
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of October 23, 2017
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(?)
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of October 16, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Wowzers! 23 cartoons in this issue, and it’s not even a double issue. The cover was mentioned here last week. If you want to read what David Plunkert, the cover artist had to say about his design, go here. Without pausing
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