The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: Summer get-away.
The Cartoonists & Cartoons:
Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a Sketchpad that has a bit of a Steinbergian flavor). No duos (that we know of). No newbies. The longest active contributor in this issue is this cartoonist, whose first cartoon (under my own name) appeared in April of 1978.
It’s a double issue, as well as the Fiction Issue (yay!). I’m not a fan of summertime, but I bend a little because it is the season of the Fiction Issue (Esquire used to do one as well –do they still?). There are at least three drawings in this issue referencing reading or writing or books: P.C. Vey‘s, Elisabeth McNair‘s, and Roz Chast‘s.
You can see all the drawings here.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Above is Rea Irvin‘s classic design for The Talk Of The Town. It weathered 92 years before being yanked for — gasp! — a redraw in the Spring of 2017. Read more here.