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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Their First Tilley Issues: Ross, Shawn, Gottlieb, Brown, and Remnick
With the New Yorker’s 93rd Anniversary issue soon on the horizon I thought it would be fun to take a look at first Tilley covers by Harold Ross, William Shawn, Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown and David Remnick. I’ve thrown in tidbits of Tilley trivia — mostly non-Tilley trivia — along the way. February 21, 1925: Harold Ross A
Read moreHow Is One of These Not Like All the Others? The New Yorker 90th Anniversary Book of Cartoons
The cover says it all.
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of January 22, 2018
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. I enjoy the little drama of seeing the new New Yorker cover pop up on the screen early Monday morning when I go to the digital issue; sometimes there is no Monday morning drama because the cover has been released (online)
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