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
Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No newbies. No duos, that we know of. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is ever-wonderful Victoria Roberts, whose first New Yorker drawing (below) appeared in the issue of September 5, 1988.
This week’s cartoons (in a slideshow).
The Cartoon Caption Contest (P. C. Vey provides this week’s drawing)
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch
Rea Irvin’s perfect Talk design (shown directly above) was in place for 92 years before being evicted in May of 2017 and replaced by — believe it or not! — a redrawn version by a contemporary illustrator. The Spill hopes Mr. Irvin’s work returns. Read more here.
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A Small Suite Of Snow Drawings
Lots of snow here in upstate New York. Here’re a few of my snow-centric New Yorker cartoons to mark the occasion. This first appeared in the magazine February 28, 1983:
This one was published in the issue of January 25, 2010:
Here’s one from the issue of January 9, 1984. a rare moment when I drew something that actually existed. This is the courtyard of 113 West 11th Street in Greenwich Village, where I lived in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Mr. Bochild is actually my downstairs neighbor, The New Yorker writer, Donald Barthelme. The snow-covered bench you see on the right is where I sat, at a small gathering of neighbors, next to Saul Steinberg one (snowless) evening in the Fall of 1978:
