The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: A somewhat bleak urban scene. Read a short Q&A with the artist, Tom Gauld.
The Cartoonists:
Seventeen cartoonists, seventeen cartoons. No collaborations (that we know of); one newbie: Sam Hurt. Mr. Hurt is the 5th addition to the stable of New Yorker cartoonists this year, and the 83rd addition under the cartoon editorship of Emma Allen, who assumed her duties in May of 2017.
The Cartoons:
What fun to see work by the first (Edward Koren)*, and the fourth (Sam Gross)** longest active New Yorker cartoonist contributors. Mr. Koren’s drawing (it’s on page 41) is terrific (and applause for the make-up department for setting it so well on the page). Mr. Gross’s drawing (p. 49), like Mr. Koren’s, is classic. Had Mr. Gross submitted this idea in his earliest years at The New Yorker, when he (among others) supplied Charles Addams with ideas, this surely would’ve been in Addams’s sights.
Victoria Roberts, another veteran,*** has a wonderful centipede drawing in the issue. When I looked up centipede drawings in the magazine’s database I was surprised to find a short list. Among the listed are these by two late great cartoonists, Nurit Karlin (in The New Yorker, September 4, 1978), and Bernie Schoenbaum (in The New Yorker, July 31, 1989):
Amy Hwang’s crossword puzzling sky diver is fun (page 26). I really like the way she drew the plane leaning up, showing the underside of the wing. As someone who has trouble with flying, I could practically sense myself clutching the arm of my chair. Also interesting is E.S. Glenn’s waiter in Hell drawing (p.57). Three words clinch it: “overpriced chicken salad.”
Among the other drawings that caught my eye this week: Maddie Dai’s dragon-slaying knight on a shrink’s couch; Joe Dator’s stand-up throne, Karen Sneider’s doggie DNA test results, and Sofia Warren’s “…put yourself out there” drawing; I especially like what’s happening beyond the curtains.
*Edward Koren’s first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of May 26, 1962.
**Sam Gross’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of August 23, 1969.
***Victoria Roberts’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of September 5, 1988.
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