American Bystander’s New Blog American Bystander has a brand new blog. If you like written humor, if you like cartoons, and humorous illustration, this is where you might want to spend some time. The Bystander’s publisher, Michael Gerber charmingly describes the blog as a place “where we could stick a few pieces from each issue.” Go to the blog here.
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker issue of September 25, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. As this is the Style Issue I decided to tackle the issue while listening to Starring Fred Astaire, a set of songs recorded by Mr. Astaire between 1936 through 1940. What a great photograph. What style. What a great top hat.
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 14: Richard Taylor
It’s taken a while to get to Richard Taylor’s advertising work, shown here in Part 14 of this series brought to you by collector and Executive Director of SPX, Warren Bernard. Mr. Taylor’s work was seemingly everywhere during his heyday; he was published approximately 400 times in The New Yorker from 1935 through 1967, he illustrated a truckload of books,
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. The week begins with the eclipse eclipsing political news, if only for a moment. Good luck with that, eclipse. As noted here last week the cover of the new issue (dated August 28, 2017) has received more notice than usual. Read
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