The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cartoonists and Cartoons:
Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Emily Flake has a Sketchpad). No duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of July 3, 1978.
Always good to see a drawing by the late great Sam Gross!
The Spill’s Applause returns for the Bruce Eric Kaplan drawing in the issue.
This week’s cartoons (in a slideshow)
This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest (Lonnie Millsap provides the latest entry)
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Eight years ago (in May of 2017) the above perfect Rea Irvin Talk Of The Town design was whisked away and replaced by — no joke! — a redrawn version facilitated by a contemporary illustrator. The Spill hopes (and hopes and hopes…and hopes) that Mr. Irvin’s work returns.
Rea Irvin (pictured above. Self portrait above 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): 179. Number of cartoons contributed: 261.
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Summertime Archive Drawing
From The New Yorker, June 13, 1983.
