The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: um.
The Cartoonists & Cartoons:
Six cartoons, seven cartoonists (Barry Blitt has a Sketchpad). No newbies. One duo that we know of.
P.C. Vey (see caption contest cartoonists below) whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1993, is the longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue.
The Cartoon Caption Contest Cartoonists: Lonnie Millsap, Ben Schwartz, P.C. Vey
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
With less than a year til the 100th anniversary issue of The New Yorker, it would seem the perfect time to begin dusting off Rea Irvin’s perfect Talk design (shown above). It disappeared in the Spring of 2017, and has been in storage since — this thing of beauty!
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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): 163. Number of cartoons contributed: 261.
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Thank You, ?
I left a question mark because I don’t know who to thank for the mystery (unmarked) package that arrived over the weekend containing…
This is such a fun addition to the Spill‘s archives. Never saw one of these before. I’d love to thank whoever sent it!