The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I’ve spent a little time this morning looking through New Yorker Thanksgiving covers over the years. My all-time favorite — it’s the only cover I ever detached from the magazine (for shame!) so I could hang it on the wall —
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80 Years Ago: The 1937 New Yorker Album; Booth on CBS Sunday Morning
Here’s an early New Yorker oddity in the line of the Albums published. It’s the first published for a specific year. There were later annual Albums (1940, 1942, and much much later 2007, 2008, and 2009). Curious that, for the first time there is no foreword. Perhaps the editors thought they’d take a break after the highly interesting double foreword
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of November 13, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Surprise, surprise — two non-political New Yorker covers in a row. Last week was John Cuneo‘s wonderful big falling leaf; this week, in a debut appearance, Jenny Kroik gives us a lovely bookstore scene (it’s titled “At the Strand” but really
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 22: John Held, Jr.; More Booth!
Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 22: John Held, Jr. I know, I know… you woke up this morning wondering if John Held, Jr., who became famous for his drawings of flappers in and on the cover of the pre-Luce Life ever did advertising work. Well courtesy of Warren Bernard‘s detective work, we have some examples of Mr. Held’s
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