The first time you set eyes on a Tom Chitty cartoon there’s no way you’ll not have some kind of reaction. His is not a cookie cutter cartoon style, but something expressly his own. Like Lars Kenseth, Mr. Chitty has dared to go to some other cartoon dimension — a place with unfamiliar human anatomy. He and Mr. Kenseth are
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of September 11, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. We’ve come to expect, in these modern New Yorker times, that the cover will likely be a graphic comment on the biggest news of the week, and so it is with this new issue, featuring Chris Ware’s reflection on Hurricane Harvey.
Read moreJoe Dator on Drawing Creepy Cat Faces, Cartoon Rubber Ducks and Much Much More
(Above: a detail from Joe Dator’s “How We Do It” — it appeared in The New Yorker, September 24, 2012) Each New Yorker cartoonist brings something different to the pages of the magazine – it’s sort of an unofficial requirement for arriving. Some are more
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