The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: Downhill
The Cartoonists and Cartoons:
Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Sofia Warren has a “Sketchbook”). No newbies. One duo that we know of (with, I believe, a new print cartoonist co-contributor, Nate Odenkirk). The longest active cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose work began appearing in the magazine the summer of 1978.
The Cartoon Caption Contest Cartoonists: Mads Horwath, Avi Steinberg, Paul Noth.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch: 
The above perfection by Rea Irvin* appeared in The New Yorker for 92 years. It was sadly put out to pasture in the Spring of 2017. Installed in its stead: a redrawn version by a contemporary illustrator. The Spill continues to hope (and believe!) that Mr. Irvin’s work will return. Read more here.
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*Rea Irvin’s A-Z Entry:
Rea Irvin (Self portrait from Meet the Artist) Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972. Irvin was the cover artist for the New Yorker’s first issue, February 21, 1925. He was the magazine’s first art and only art supervisor (some refer to him as its first art editor) holding the position from 1925 until 1939 when James Geraghty assumed the title of art editor. Irvin then became art director and remained in that position until William Shawn officially succeeded Harold Ross in early 1952. Irvin’s last original work for the magazine was the magazine’s cover of July 12, 1958. The February 21, 1925 Eustace Tilley cover had been reproduced every year on the magazine’s anniversary until 1994, when R. Crumb’s Tilley-inspired cover appeared. Tilley has since reappeared, with other artists substituting from time-to-time. Number of New Yorker covers (not including the repeat appearances of the first cover every anniversary up to 1991): 163. Number of cartoons contributed: 261.