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(?)
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The 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
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker, October 9, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. The New Yorker has gone through a number of survivable events in its 92 year history. It nearly folded in its first six months of existence, but survived when Raoul Fleischmann, its original backer, suddenly turned white knight, decided to pump more
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of September 18, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Visitors to the Spill (and social media) have already had the weekend to digest the cover of the latest issue — it features the looming top-noggin of North Korea’s leader. The cover artist, Eric Drooker told Michael Cavna in a Washington
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