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
Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has a Sketchbook). One duo, that we know of. One newbie: Cerise Zelenetz, who is the 3rd addition to the magazine’s cartoonist colosseum this year, and the 183rd cartoonist brought in since Emma Allen took the cartoon editor reins in 2017.
This week’s cartoons (in a slideshow).
This week’s cartoon caption contest (Tyson Cole provides the drawing for the latest contest)
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch
If only the power(s?) that be had shed the 2017 redrawn Talk design and returned Rea Irvin’s classic (shown above) to start off the 101st year of the magazine. But that didn’t happen — the redraw remains.
The Spill continues to hope Mr. Irvin’s work returns. Perhaps we’ll see it in the 200th anniversary issue? Read more here
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Rea Irvin’s A-Z Entry
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.