The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: sun light
The Cartoonists and Cartoons:
Twelve cartoons, thirteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has a “Sketchbook”). No newbies, no duos that we know of. The longest active cartoonist in this issue is Ms. Chast, who began contributing in July of 1978.
Roz Chast (pictured above. Photo by Bill Franzen) Born, Brooklyn, NY. New Yorker work: July 3, 1978 – . Key collections: Unscientific Americans (Dolphin/Doubleday, 1982), Theories of Everything ( Bloomsbury, 2006) Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2014). Website: rozchast.com
The Caption Contest Cartoonists: Christopher Weyant, Farley Katz, Akeem Roberts.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Below is Rea Irvin’s iconic design for The New Yorker‘s Talk Of The Town. It was in place for 92 years before being ushered off the big stage in May of 2017 and replaced by a redrawn version, if you can believe it. The Spill continues to hope (against hope?) that the real deal is returned.
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.