Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A 1951 NYU Parody Issue Of The New Yorker
What began with The New Yorker parodying itself (an in-office publication via Rea Irvin featuring a silhouette of Harold Ross in Eustace Tilley’s place, looking at Alexander Woollcott instead of a butterfly) carried on through the decades. (The Spill has a copy of Lois Long‘s copy of that first parody issue, not an actual copy).
Years later, Rea Irvin again parodied his own creation, for The Jonkey Club. The Spill archive contains a number of examples (if you go to the “From The Attic” section of this site you’ll find more information on some of the issues shown here).
Yesterday the latest addition to this collection arrived:The New Yorkur, produced in 1951 by New York University (NYU).
As always, there’s a fun, and even sometimes funny take on The Talk Of The Town:
As with all the other parodies, there’s a mixed bag of cartoons. Here are two of the best from this issue. The first, a full page by “Gluas Williams” parodying Gluyas Williams’ New Yorker “America’s Playgrounds” series.
And then there’s this fairly good take-off on George Price’s style. This could’ve been in The New Yorker back in the 1950s.
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The Tilley Watch Online, March 4-8, 2024
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