Cartoons And Music Pen, paper, and music have always been the ever-present basic and essential ingredients of my work day. I sit down daily with my trusty Rapidograph, uncap it, and then hover the pen point over a blank piece of paper. What happens next, on the paper, is always a surprise. I don’t know what I’m going to draw
Read moreThe Cover: Talk about yer timely cover: you might think that the cover on the left, by I. G. Haupt, is this week’s New Yorker cover, but it’s not. It appeared August 31, 1929*, not too long before “Black Monday”; the cover on the right appears this week on the magazine — “The Spring & Style” Issue. I’m reminded of
Read moreThe Cover: Trick or treaters in the woods courtesy of Liniers. To me, the creatures appearing in this cover seem to be above-sea-level up-in-the-trees relatives of Ed Steed’s August 26th cover’s creatures. I’m reminded of the fun fans had years ago by hunting for The Beatles faces on the cover of The Rolling Stones album, Their Satanic Majesties Request. Details
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. The New Yorker has gone through a number of survivable events in its 92 year history. It nearly folded in its first six months of existence, but survived when Raoul Fleischmann, its original backer, suddenly turned white knight, decided to pump more
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