“The Style Issue” with a Kadir Nelson cover — the second Nelson cover in three weeks. It’s titled “Savoring Summer” (and again, I question why the New Yorker‘s covers need to be titled. Shouldn’t covers speak for themselves, so to speak? This cover certainly does). The cartoons: Thinking there’d be a bevy of cartoonists in this mid-September issue (last week’s
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of August 27th, 2018
Kadir Nelson‘s cover (a tribute to Aretha Franklin) was posted last week. Not mentioned here at the time (but noted on the New Yorker‘s Table of Contents): the image was inspired by Charles W. White’s Folksinger. The new issue’s “Fall Preview” accounts for the abundance of arts ads and illustrations. The cartoons: Now we’re talkin’: sixteen cartoons in this
Read moreFave Photo of the Day: Cartoonists Celebrate Sam Gross’s Birthday; Early Release: Next Week’s New Yorker Cover; Cartoon Companion Dissects the Very Latest New Yorker Cartoons
Fave Photo of the Day: Cartoonists Celebrate Sam Gross’s Birthday Cartoonists gathered on Manhattan’s upper east side on Thursday to celebrate Cartoon God, Sam Gross, who turned 85 on August 7th. Clockwise from the lower left: Robert Leighton, Bob Eckstein, Maria Scrivan, Nick Downes, Marisa Acocella, Sam Gross, Roz Chast, and Tracey Berglund. –photo courtesy of Bob Eckstein _______________________________________________________ Early
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of October 2, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. October already? Well yes — that’s the way it is on magazine covers. Always one week ahead of reality (or if it’s a monthly, one month ahead of reality). The cover of this weeks issue, graphically speaking, reminded me of Gretchen
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