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.
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M.K. Brown Profiled
From Marin News, January 4, 2015, “Fairfax Cartoonist M.K. Brown celebrated in ‘Stranger Than Life’ and show”
Read moreGahan Wilson Documentary Premiers Digitally Today
Today is the digital premiere of a wonderful film about a legendary cartoonist. You can download Steven-Charles Jaffee’s 2014 documentary of Gahan Wilson, Born Dead Still Weird on iTunes, as well as Amazon Instant Video, Xbox Video, Playstation, Google Play & Vudu. Here’s the iTunes link.
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
Read moreBook of Interest: That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick
Recently published: Ellin Stein’s That’s Not Funny, It’s Sick / the National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream (W.W. Norton & Co.). From the publisher’s notes: Journalist Ellin Stein, an observer of the scene since the early 1970s, draws on a wealth of revealing, firsthand interviews with the architects and impresarios
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