The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: a wintertime beauty by Marcellus Hall
The Cartoonists And Cartoons:
The Caption Contest Cartoonists:
Liza Donnelly, Lonnie Millsap, Michael Maslin
Eighteen new cartoons, (nineteen including the latest caption contest cartoon). Nineteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has a Sketchpad). No newbies. Two duos, that we know of. The longest active cartoonist in the issue is this cartoonist.
See the Cartoon Caption Contest here.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Back in the Spring of 2017, the above perfection by Rea Irvin was given the hook, and replaced by — gasp! — a redrawn version. The Spill continues to hope that Mr. Irvin’s Talk design 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.