The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Linier’s cover (below right) seems nearly a close-up, flowers-in-a-cityscape-wise, to Ed Steed’s cover of September 14, 2020: The Cartoonists Seventeen cartoonists, seventeen cartoons; no newbies, no duos (that we know of). The Cartoons Five cartoons immediately attracted
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The New Yorker Holiday Party 2020 I’ve missed just a few New Yorker holiday parties over the years. Weather did in several (a memorable evening in the early 1990s when my wife and I headed down the Taconic Parkway, cruising along at 20 mph in a snowstorm…we turned back at the Bull’s Head Road exit, with nearly 100 miles
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The Cover A rarity this new issue: an “after” cover (aside from all the take-offs on Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley). The cover artist, Pascal Campion gives a shout-out to Mark Ulriksen’s November 2012 New Yorker cover, shown below left: Here’s what Mr. Ulriksen had to say about his cover back then. And here’s what The New Yorker‘s art editor, Francoise
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The Cover: As mentioned here last week, the cover, by David Plunkert, was early-released. I wondered, briefly, if the magazine might pull the cover and try for something reflecting the snowballing news that developed as we approached the weekend (Trump at Walter Reed). I believe that Friday is the magazine’s deadline, so it would’ve been tight. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons:
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