Early Cover Release: The New Yorker, October 21, 2024 issue
Next week’s cover, released three days early, with art by Owen Smith, is a rarity: a cover directly tied-in to a major piece within the magazine, “Alexei Navalny’s Prison Diaries.”
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The Tilley Watch Online…October 7-11, 2024
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: Nathan Cooper (twice this week), Liz Montague, Mick Stevens, Will McPhail. Link to this week’s Daily Cartoons.
Pulling Teeth (a gallery of cartoons about the dentist/dental world), with drawings by, among others, Peter Arno, Syd Hoff, Chon Day, Joe Dator, and Victoria Roberts.
Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Mar-A-Lago Calling Moscow”
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Cartoon Stranger Than Fiction?
In Alexandra Jacob’s New York Times review (October 13, 2024) of Susan Minot‘s new novel, Don’t Be a Stranger, this passage caught my attention:
The dialogue there is quintessential New Yorker cartoon caption: “I’ve given up trying to quit,” a female guest says. “I’ve quit quitting.”
It caught my attention because the caption seems to echo this drawing from The New Yorker (it appeared in the issue of July 25, 1994): 