The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: Linier’s cover (below right) seems nearly a close-up, flowers-in-a-cityscape-wise, to Ed Steed’s cover of September 14, 2020:
The Cartoonists
Seventeen cartoonists, seventeen cartoons; no newbies, no duos (that we know of).
The Cartoons
Five cartoons immediately attracted my attention: Lars Kenseth’s cat on the fireman’s lap (page 34). Mr. Kenseth excels at surprising us — and isn’t that a huge part of what this cartoon biz is all about. P.C. Vey’s work-at-home couple drawing (page 15) is terrif as is Mick Stevens’s chess drawing (page 31). Mr. Stevens, #8* on the list of longest active cartoon contributors, is this issue’s most veteran contributor (his first New Yorker drawing — a classic — titled Life Without Mozart, appeared in the issue of December 17, 1979). Barbara Smaller’s fab ice cream sundae(?) drawing (page 52) is my favorite Smaller drawing of the year (so far). And then there’s Kendra Allenby’s lovely out-west vista drawing (page 23). I only wish the drawing had been given a lot more space on the page (it being a drawing that plays off the big screen panoramic view of mountains and plains).
The Rea Irvin Masthead Watch
The above classic design by Rea Irvin remains shelved. Read all about it here.
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*Longest Active New Yorker Contributors (thirty years or more)
- Edward Koren (May 26, 1962)
- Mort Gerberg (April 10, 1965)
- Edward Frascino (September 4, 1965)
- George Booth (June 14, 1969)
- Sam Gross (August 23, 1969)
- Michael Maslin (April 17, 1978)
- Roz Chast (July 3, 1978)
- Mick Stevens (December 17, 1979)
- Liza Donnelly (June 21, 1982)
- Victoria Roberts (September 5, 1988)