The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. Always a pleasure to see a colleague’s work pop up as a New Yorker cover as I open up the digital edition early Monday morning. We (“we” meaning the New Yorker‘s contributing cartoonists) used to be responsible (my unofficial estimate) for
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Vintage Steig; A Richard Decker Self Portrait & One More Kovarsky!
Vintage Steig From Mike Lynch’s blog, courtesy of Dick Buchanan’s treasure trove of cartoon art, “William Steig Gag Cartoons 1946 – 1965” — see them all here. (above: from Look magazine, February 17, 1959). _____________________________________________________________________ A Richard Decker Self Portrait and One More Kovarsky! And speaking of Dick Buchanan, an interesting tear sheet containing a Richard Decker self portrait is
Read moreRevisiting: The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection
If you liked the cover of the New Yorker‘s very first Cartoon Issue (published in 1997) you might like the cover of The New Yorker 75th Anniversary Cartoon Collection (published in 2000). Why? Because all of the cartoon grabs on the 75th Collection cover were on the cover of the Cartoon Issue. Now that’s not a bad thing; any cover
Read moreThe New Yorker Cartoon Album 1975 – 1985
With the publication of The New Yorker Cartoon Album 1975-1985, the word “Cartoon” makes its second appearance on an Album cover and in an Album title (the first was on the cover of The Album of Sports and Games: Cartoons of Three Decades). The magazine’s 60th anniversary not only saw this anthology published, but the magazine’s fans were treated to
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