The Cover: The cover, by Christoph Niemann, has a kind of mid-summer feel to it (however, its title, “Voices of Change” tells us (and in this case, I guess we need to be informed) it doesn’t have a thing to do with something that simple. In fact, this is a themed issue of The New Yorker, headed “Voices Of American
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of July 20, 2020
Looking at the new issue I felt a bit like “Vacuum Man” from the Beatles animated film Yellow Submarine — you know, the creature who sucks up everything around it, including itself. After what seemed like eternity during the double issue two week span, I was eager to in-take and take-in the cartoons. Left: Vacuum Man is the guy
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of June 29, 2020
The Cover: a beauty by Diana Ejaita. Her third for the magazine — read about her others here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: The Bruce Eric Kaplan drawing — it’s on page 39 — ever-so-vaguely reminded me of this National Lampoon “Vacation” scene (and that reminded me of the whole movie — not a bad way to begin the week). Charlie
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker (Double Issue) June 8 & 15, 2020
The fiction issue, and it’s a double. The next Monday Tilley Watch won’t be posted til the 15th, which seems like a long way away at the moment. As has been the case since the magazine became a work-at-home situation, the digital issue is not yet posted (writing this noonish). I’ll use the slideshow found here (you’ll have to scroll
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