Here’s Bruce McCall speaking about his gluten-free-gluten cover, along with three cover sketches (a nice touch). And here are the cartoonists in the issue: A slightly different Monday Tilley Watch this week…I’m listing my first response as I (electronically) flip through the issue, as if the drawings are flashcards. Bruce Eric Kaplan…rodents and a tiger — I really like the
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of March 26, 2018
The cat, or, uh, cover’s been outta the bag for several days now, so we can move right on to the cartoons in the issue. (I’ll mention Rea Irvin‘s missing masthead later on in this post). Roz Chast has the first drawing (p.19). The setting of several folks lined up on a sofa hard up against a wall seems to
Read moreLatest New Yorker Cartoons Dissected; George Booth New Yorker Original Cover Art; Blog of Note… A New Yorker State of Mind: Carolita Johnson’s “This Is The Hand”; Cartoons From The Saturday Evening Post; PR: Blitt, Chast
The Cartoon Companion guys, Max & Simon, are back with their customary dissections of the latest New Yorker cartoons. Read it all here. ______________________________________________________________ George Booth New Yorker Original Cover Art Above is the published Booth cover from February 4, 1974. To see the original art visit Attempted Bloggery. Don’t forget! An exhibit of Mr. Booth’s work just opened yesterday
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of October 23, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. This week’s cover (by R. Kikuo Johnson, who we learn from the Contributors page teaches cartooning at the Rhode Island School of Design) is of robots on their way to wherever robots go to. One has an on-the-go cup of coffee(?)
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