As anyone who follows cartoon art knows, nearly everything and anything is fair game, including other cartoons. The famous Carl Rose “spinach” cartoon from the December 8, 1928 New Yorker (shown above) that was yesterday’s subject here (well, more precisely, its caption origin was the subject) spawned a number of later cartoons. Danny Shanahan gets the credit for causing me
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of June 18, 1984
As mentioned here last week, it’s double issue time again. We’re halfway though it now ; only a week til the new issue (dated June 18, 2018) appears online early Monday morning. Just for fun I thought I’d go back to another June 18th issue — the one from 1984. Here’s the cover, by Susan Davis, who contributed fifteen covers
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A Sempe cover! And a bonus: a lengthier Cover Story than of late, with several photos (including one of Sempe and Ed Koren astride bicycles in NYC). Nice. Very nice. On a run through this new issue the number of illustrations and photos seemed even weightier than the past few issues (and that’s really saying something). It’s likely due to
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of February 26, 2018
Always glad to return to weekly issues of the magazine after doubles. This new issue sports a cover that seems like the sum of the equation: Olympics + North Korea =. Here’s what cover artist Mark Ulriksen had to say about it on newyorker.com The Olympics + North Korea equation continues with the very first spot drawing appearing on the
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