The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I think it’s safe to say we have in our hands this week the New Yorker’s official Fall issue what with John Cuneo‘s beautiful giant leaf descending cover. For a change, I looked through this week’s issue (the digital issue, of
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Article of Interest: “When Did New Yorker Covers Get So Thirsty?”; Fave Photo of the Day: Five New Yorker Cartoonists in Times Sq (2002)
From Slate, October 25, 2017, “When Did New Yorker Covers Get So Thirsty?” — a piece by Matthew Dessem on the evolution of “specific people” New Yorker covers. The first one, Nov 22, 1941, by Rea Irvin: Top of the post, left: the second one: October 31, 1942 by Rea Irvin ; on the right, the most recent by Carter
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of October 30, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. We are definitely in the Halloween mode in the new issue, and it all begins with Carter Goodrich’s cover; a scary clown looking remarkably similar to our current president peers out from the woods. For some reason my thoughts drifted back
Read more84 Years Ago: The Sixth New Yorker Album of Cartoons
I love all of the New Yorker Albums that have come out in the magazine’s 92 years, but this one I like maybe just a teeny-tiny bit more than many of the rest (partially due to the fact that it was a gift from Jack Ziegler, back in the days when I was building a set of all the albums,
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