Last week in this spot I noted and silently wondered about the latest issue of The New Yorker (dated October 29) barely touching on Halloween (other than a witches and broomstick drawing by Seth Fleishman). This week’s issue, dated November 5, solves the mystery with its trick-or-treating Trumpian cover. I think we’ve now seen enough of him on the cover to
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue of August 27th, 2018
Kadir Nelson‘s cover (a tribute to Aretha Franklin) was posted last week. Not mentioned here at the time (but noted on the New Yorker‘s Table of Contents): the image was inspired by Charles W. White’s Folksinger. The new issue’s “Fall Preview” accounts for the abundance of arts ads and illustrations. The cartoons: Now we’re talkin’: sixteen cartoons in this
Read moreVictoria Roberts Pencilled; Attempted Bloggery on Cuneo’s Art; Seth’s Commencement Address; Philip Roth Jaywalking on West 79th St.
Jane Mattimoe’s Case For Pencils returns with a look at Victoria Roberts’ tools of the trade. See it here! Ms. Roberts began contributing to The New Yorker in 1988. _____________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery on Cuneo’s Art This week Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery looks at items acquired at the MoCCA Fest. Today it’s John Cuneo‘s Not Waving But Drawing. Read it here.
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of April 30, 2018
Baseball in the air, on the field and on the cover of the latest issue of The New Yorker (actually, stickball’s on the cover, which appears, to me anyway, as if it’s a page out of an illustrated book). Fewer illustrations/photos this week than last, but still, there are three full pages (including a full page photo of Hitler), and
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