The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. The week begins with the eclipse eclipsing political news, if only for a moment. Good luck with that, eclipse. As noted here last week the cover of the new issue (dated August 28, 2017) has received more notice than usual. Read
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The Monday Tilley Watch (Part 1)
Double issues (as we’ve just experienced) have a way of creating the impression it’s been ages since the last new issue. So, yay, finally: the late August New Yorker (dated, for the record: August 21, 2017). There are a lot of cartoons in this issue, so the Monday Tilley Watch will be broken up into two parts. I’ll post the
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Are these the dog days of summer? According to Wikipedia, Sweden’s dog days are bracketed by the dates July 22nd through August 23rd. That seems reasonable for the United States as well. My
Read moreA McPhail Cartoon Stirs the Pot
The above cartoon by Will McPhail, a relative newcomer to the New Yorker‘s stable of cartoonists (his first drawing appeared December 22, 2014) has been receiving a lot of social media attention. Some sites mentioning the cartoon: The Blaze:”New Yorker Cartoon Sums Up Anti-Elite National
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