The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
Note: the digital issue has not been posted as of yet (9:00 am this Monday)…I’m patching together today’s post using various information from other newyorker.com sources. I’ll correct any omissions, or errors, once the issue has been posted.
The Cover: Who knew it was microwavable? (Earth, that is).
The Cartoonists And Cartoons:
Corey Pandolph and Sean Crespo, Barbara Smaller, Maddie Dai, Hartley Lin, Jared Nangle, Matthew Diffee, Johnny DiNapoli, David Sipress, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby, Liza Donnelly, Sam Hurt, Lonnie Millsap
A dozen cartoons, a dozen cartoonists. Two duos, that we know of (the Spill considers duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active cartoonist in the issue is Liza Donnelly, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of June 21, 1982.
See the cartoons from the issue here
The Caption Contest Cartoonists: Juan Astasio, Will McPhail, Liza Donnelly
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Below you see Rea Irvin’s iconic Talk design that ran for 92 years before being yanked for a redraw in May of 2027. The Spill continues to hope that Mr. Irvin’s work is returned. Read more here.
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): 163. Number of cartoons contributed: 261.