Mahood’s 1958 Cartoon Collection: Not A Word To A Soul Ordered not long ago (for one dollar(!), plus s&h) from a seller across the big pond, Kenneth Mahood’s 1958 cartoon collection arrived today and has been added to the Spill‘s cartoon library. Was very happy to see the dust jacket (and a protected dust jacket at that) in such great
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of February 3, 2020; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Daily Shouts Cartoonist
The Cover: a snowy bridge. Read the Q&A with the cover artist here, and see the pretty digital snowflakes fall. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: In a throw back to earlier Monday Tilley Watches, I’ll take a quick tour through all the cartoons in the issue; a mostly text-driven drive-by of the work. The first drawing, by David Sipress, references the
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of January 27, 2020; David Salle Incorporates Peter Arno Drawings
The Cover: A NYC subway situation, by Luci Gutierrez. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Every first run through the cartoons in the latest issue of The New Yorker I feel as if I’m browsing the goods behind glass in a pastry shop’s display case, appreciating the variety, before beginning to narrow down which one to select, if in the buying mood.
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of January 13, 2020
A few thoughts on the art in the latest issue of The New Yorker… The Cover: a moment in a museum, courtesy of Bruce McCall (read a Q&A with him here). The second cover in a row with ( for me) a retro feel to it. I could see Charles Addams doing something like this, or the late great Richard
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