The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: bicyclists
The Cartoonists And Cartoons:
Twelve cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (not including the caption contest cartoonists). Ed Steed is this week’s Spot artist, and Liana Finck has a Sketchbook. No newbies. One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). The longest active contributor in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in July of 1978.
See this week’s cartoons here.
The Cartoon Caption Contest Cartoonists: Lynn Hsu, Ed Himelblau, Jerald Lewis
See This Week’s Cartoon Caption Contest here.
Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Way way back in May of 2017, the above Rea Irvin Talk design (which had run for 92 years) was replaced by — gasp! — a redrawn version. The Spill wishes, upon a star, that the real deal will someday return. 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.
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A Happy 16th From Tom Bloom
A big thanks to the fab illustrator, Tom Bloom (his work has appeared, among other places, in The New Yorker‘s Goings On About Town section) for sending along the below to help celebrate Ink Spill‘s 16th birthday!
