The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cartoonists and Cartoons
Sixteen cartoonists, sixteen cartoons. No newbies. No duos, that we know of. Cover artist, Marcellus Hall, has Spots. The longest active contributing cartoonist is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing was published July 3, 1978.
Wonderful seeing a drawing by the late great Edward Koren!
This week’s cartoons (in a slideshow).
This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch
In the Spring of 2017, Rea Irvin’s perfect Talk design (shown here) was replaced — if you can believe it — by a redrawn version constructed by a contemporary illustrator. It would be more than wonderful, especially in this New Yorker centennial year, if the magazine jettisoned the redraw and brought Mr. Irvin’s work back. Read more here.
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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): 179. Number of cartoons contributed: 261.