The Cover: Adriane Tomine returns with a cover steeped in dreams. Read about it here. The cover appears related, in color palette and style, to last week’s cover, by Chris Ware. They even share a large circular object hovering along the right side of the frame (Mr. Ware’s is a tree, Mr. Tomine’s a logo). The Cartoons: Two pieces of
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of August 20, 2018
Seems like a long long time since there was a Monday Tilley Watch (it wasn’t really that long; must’ve been the endless Summer days making the stretch seem more stretched out). The cover of the new issue is messagey — you can read what the cover artist, R. Kikuo Johnson, had in mind here. Worth noting there’s gender equality, cartoonist
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of April 30, 2018
Baseball in the air, on the field and on the cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker (actually, stickball’s on the cover, which appears, to me anyway, as if it’s a page out of an illustrated book). Fewer illustrations/photos this week than last, but still, there are three full pages (including a full page photo of Hitler), and
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of April 16, 2018
Tom Gauld’s cover for this new issue is one of the best covers I’ve seen in the post-Lee Lorenz as editor era (Mr. Lorenz was the New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 through 1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 through 1997. During his years as art editor he edited both covers and cartoons). Here’s Mr. Gauld talking about his Spring
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