Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of December 2, 2024

The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker

The Cover: A big congrats to cartoonist colleague, Tom Toro on his first cover!

The Cartoonists and Cartoons:

Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Tom Toro has the cover). No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Greg Nussbaum, who is the 21st artist added to the magazine’s colosseum of cartoonists this year, and the 165th brought in since Emma Allen took the cartoon editor’s reins in the Spring of 2017. Good to see a drawing by the late great Edward Koren. The longest active cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first appeared in July of 1978.

This week’s cartoons.

This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest Cartoonist: E.S. Glenn

This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest.

The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:

Not too too many issues to go before the magazine’s 100th birthday issue. Sure would be great (understatement!) to see Rea Irvin’s perfect Talk design (above) return by then. It was yanked in the Spring of 2017 and replaced by, if you can believe it, a redrawn version. More reading.

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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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