The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: Trump In Court
The Cartoonists and Cartoons:
Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know. Two newbies: Diane de Ferran, and Tim Hunt. They are the 6th and 7th additions to the magazine’s stadium this year, and the 132nd and 133rd additions since Emma Allen took the cartoon editor reins in May of 2017. The longest active contributor in the issue is the great Edward Koren, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in May of 1962.
Mr. Koren’s A-Z entry:
Edward Koren Born, 1935. New Yorker work: May 26, 1962 — . Key collections: Do You Want To Talk About It? ( Pantheon, 1976), Well, There’s Your Problem (Pantheon, 1980), Caution: Small Ensembles (Pantheon, 1983), What About Me? (Pantheon Books, 1989). Website: edwardkoren.com
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The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Above is Rea Irvin’s design that headed The Talk Of The Town for 92 years until it was — oof! — replaced by — gasp! — a redraw in 2017. The Spill continues to hope against hope that it will returned. Read more here.
Rea Irvin’s A-Z Spill 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.