Pardon this little trip down memory lane. In 1975 I printed this first book of mine on a creaky noisy offset press in the basement of the Print Shop at The University of Connecticut in Storrs (the Print Shop, a little paradise on campus, is no more, torn down and replaced — a la Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”
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The Monday Tilley Watch (Part 1)
Double issues (as we’ve just experienced) have a way of creating the impression it’s been ages since the last new issue. So, yay, finally: the late August New Yorker (dated, for the record: August 21, 2017). There are a lot of cartoons in this issue, so the Monday Tilley Watch will be broken up into two parts. I’ll post the
Read more“That’s Him!”… Police Lineup Cartoons in The New Yorker
Police-related cartoons have long been a New Yorker staple. The very first one, by Gardner Rea, appeared in the very first issue, and the magazine’s second cover, by Al Frueh, featured two policemen riding on a tiny car.
Read moreHonoring The Heat: A Rejected Summer Cover
In honor of the first really-feels-like-summer day here in upstate New York, I’m posting one of a truckload of covers proposed to and rejected by my favorite magazine (no hard feelings!). This one probably dates back to the early-to-mid 1980s.
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