The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: Microscopic fibers? No, ski trails. More here.
This Week’s Single Panel Cartoonists: Maggie Larson, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Bob Eckstein, Roz Chast, Felipe Galindo, Amy Hwang, Paul Noth, Benjamin Schwartz, Liana Finck, Avi Steinberg, Frank Cotham, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Colin Tom, Zachary Kanin, Julia Suits. 15 cartoons.
This Week’s Cartoon Caption Contest Cartoonists: E.S. Glenn, Brian Hawes & Seth Roberts, Michael Maslin.
Eighteen single panel cartoons; three caption contest cartoons. One duo, that we know of (the Spill considers duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is this cartoonist.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Back in the Spring of 2017, someone decided it would be a great idea to replace Rea Irvin’s classic Talk design (shown below) with — gasp! — a redrawn version that included One World Trade Center. Using the redraw would’ve been a nice idea for just the issue commemorating the magazine’s move downtown several years earlier (celebrated by Bruce McCall’s cover on the issue of February 2, 2015). But the redraw continued on, while Mr. Irvin’s original was put in storage. The Spill believes it’s never too late to bring back the classic. Read more here.
