Here’s a fun crowd dining out on the left coast. From lower left, clockwise: Lars Kenseth, Lila Ash, Olivia de Recat, Sharon Isadora Levy, Ivan Ehlers (Mad Magazine cartoonist and a contributor to The New Yorker‘s Daily cartoon), David Ostow, and American Bystander‘s Michael Gerber. (My thanks to Mr. Ostow for the photo). ____________________________________ Podcast Of Interest: Mort Gerberg From
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The Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of February 4, 2019
The Cover: Vegetation abounds. Here’s what the artist,Tom Gauld had to say about it. The Cartoonists in the new issue: The Magazine: Whenever February comes around, I begin thinking about the upcoming anniversary issue of The New Yorker, a favorite child here on this site (Spill visitors might remember this Tilley-centric piece I wrote for newyorker.com a few years back). Seeing
Read moreThe Tilley Watch Online, January 21-25, 2019; Cartoon Companion Rates The Latest New Yorker Drawings…And Interviews Roz Chast; More Arno And Shermund On Attempted Bloggery
New Yorker cartoonists contributing to Daily Shouts this past week were Bishakh Som, Liana Finck, and Ali Fitzgerald. The week’s Daily Cartoons, if not outright Trumpian, were certainly Trump tinged. The contributing New Yorker cartoonists were Emily Flake and Lars Kenseth; the online-only contributors were Brooke Bourgeois and Ivan Ehlers. _____________________________________________ The CC‘s “Max” and “Simon” have assigned ratings to
Read moreThe Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of January 21, 2019
An interesting cover this week, reminiscent of Arthur Getz‘s great city landscapes: a dark city view with a small area of bright lights slicing through. That contrast of dark with dramatic light was close to a Getzian specialty (similar scenes were also beautifully painted by a number of other New Yorker artists through the years). If you can, get hold
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