The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: If you can’t stand the heat stick your feet in the refrigerator, on top of some books
The Cartoonists and Cartoons:
Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Emily Flake has a Sketchpad). Two duos, that we know of. One newbie: Natalya Lobanova, who is the 12th addition to the magazine’s cartoonist coliseum this year, and the 158th addition since Emma Allen took the magazine’s cartoon editorship reins in May of 2017.
The longest active contributing cartoonist in this issue is Peter Steiner, whose work began appearing in The New Yorker issue of July 9, 1979.
Good to see an Edward Koren drawing in the issue. Mr. Koren, one of The New Yorker‘s cartoon gods, passed away last year.
The Cartoon Caption Contest Cartoonists: Meredith Southard, Christopher Weyant, Felipe Galindo (aka feggo)
This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
There are certain visible/visual elements of The New Yorker that needn’t ever be “tweaked.” The strap for instance (that’s the vertical strip that runs along the left side of the cover). So far, so good with that. Not so good so far was the 2017 replacement of Rea Irvin’s spectacular Talk heading (above), by a –gasp! — redraw. The Spill continues to hope Mr. Irvin’s work comes home to roost. Read more.