Despite the snow scene outside my window and the forecast for another wallopin’ of snow here in a few days, I know Spring is just around the corner. The latest New Yorker cover — the second by Jenny Kroik — is in the same realm of wishful thinking. Her cover is a welcome respite from politics, which are always just around
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The Tilley Watch Online; E. Simms Campbell’s 1933 Map of Harlem Night Clubs
A shortened Daily Cartoon week ( due to the holiday?) with David Sipress (a Trump drawing), Brendan Loper (two gun control drawings), Jeremy Nguyen (a gun control drawing), Peter Kuper (a gun control drawing), and Barry Blitt (a Trump/Olympics drawing). Over on Daily Shouts a lot of contributing New Yorker cartoonist activity: Liana Finck’s ongoing advice piece, Will McPhail on
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of February 26, 2018
Always glad to return to weekly issues of the magazine after doubles. This new issue sports a cover that seems like the sum of the equation: Olympics + North Korea =. Here’s what cover artist Mark Ulriksen had to say about it on newyorker.com The Olympics + North Korea equation continues with the very first spot drawing appearing on the
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of February 5, 2018
An ice skating cover (titled “Figured Skaters”) on this week before the magazine’s 93rd birthday issue. On the way to the cartoons I’m sensing less graphics and more text in the Goings On About Town section. Or is it just my imagination. Take away the weekly near full page photograph and the magazine seems edging to its graphic roots. For
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