The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: Apartment hunting, NYC-style, by Marcellus Hall.
The Cartoonists And Cartoons:
Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active cartoonist in this issue is Frank Cotham, who began contributing in 1993.
A round of Applause Applause for Liana Finck’s “The peel just doesn’t feel like enough anymore.”
–See all of this week’s cartoons here.
The Caption Contest Cartoonists: Maggie Larson, Felipe Galindo (aka Feggo), Kaamran Hafeez
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
The below bit of perfection from Rea Irvin was ditched in may of 2017 for — if you can believe it — a redrawn version. The Spill continues to hope this decision was just a big misunderstanding, and the real deal will be returned. Read more here.
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): 163. Number of cartoons contributed: 261.
Wow – I may need to be examined – all cartoons were nearly equal to Liana’s – I am still chuckling over Elisabeth McNair’s cartoon – 101 THINGS TO DO WITH BACON – and Edward Steed has come back stronger than ever. Liana earned applause as well as many of the others.
I was so happy to see the round of applause come out.
I enjoyed Frank Cotham’s cartoon and the dog must have come from the same breed that George Booth always used.