The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: Read a brief Q&A with the cover artist here.
The Cartoonists:
A baker’s dozen number of cartoonists (Emily Flake has a “Sketchpad); a dozen cartoons. No newbies, no duos (that we know of).
The Cartoons: A (wide) variety pack this week, including a “Midnight Cowboy” reference (DiNapoli), clothed giraffes (Chitty), a cubicle cartoon (Vey), a cave of no return (Stevens), a wedding dress showroom (Si), a soon to be tantruming kid (BEK), Moses parting the Red Sea (Toro), extra flying buttresses (Thompson), and Victoria Roberts’s very very funny mask-wearing potato.
The Span: The most senior cartoonist (“senior” in years contributing) this week is Roz Chast, whose first cartoon appeared in July of 1978. The most junior cartoonist (“junior” in years contributing) this week is Zoe Si, whose first cartoon appeared in February of 2020.
The Rea Irvin Talk Masthead Watch:
The above classic design by the great Rea Irvin is still-a-missing. Read about it here.
Here’s Mr. Irvin’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z:
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 editor, holding the position from 1925 until 1939 when James Geraghty assumed the title. Irvin became art director and remained in that position until William Shawn succeeded Harold Ross. 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.