Monday Tilley Watch…The New Yorker Issue Of June 19, 2023
The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: Shopping, Chast-style.
The Cartoonists & Cartoons:
Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has the cover — she is also this issue’s longest active cartoonist contributor). Liana Finck has a Sketchpad as well as a single panel cartoon. No newbies. One duo, that we know of.
See the issue’s cartoons here.
The Caption Contest Cartoonists: Mike Twohy, Dan Misdea, Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby.
Rea Irvin’s Talk Design:
Below is the late great Rea Irvin’s design for The Talk Of The Town. It appeared on that page for 92 years before being replaced by– gasp! — a version redrawn by a contemporary illustrator. Read more here.
Mr. Irvin’s A-Z:
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.