The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cartoonists & Cartoons:
Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No newbies, no duos that we know of. The longest active contributor in this issue is Roz Chast, who began contributing in July of 1978.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
The Spill continues to hope that the above perfection by Rea Irvin is one day returned to The New Yorker’s Talk Of The Town perch where it sat for 92 years before being replaced by — gasp! — a redraw. Read more.
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On Memorial Day, the Spill traditionally posts this Special Edition For The Armed Forces copy of The New Yorker War Cartoons. The cover is by the late great Alan Dunn (his A-Z entry is below). This cover originally appeared on the August 11, 1945 issue of The New Yorker.
Mr. Dunn’s A-Z entry:
Alan Dunn (self portrait above from Meet the Artist) Born in Belmar, New Jersey, August 11, 1900, died in New York City, 1975. NYer work: 1926 – 1974 Key collections: Rejections (Knopf, 1931), Who’s Paying For This Cab? (Simon & Schuster, 1945), A Portfolio of Social Cartoons ( Simon & Schuster, 1968). One of the most published New Yorker cartoonists (1,906 cartoons) , Mr. Dunn was married to Mary Petty — together they lived and worked at 12 East 88th Street, where, according to the NYTs, Alan worked “seated in a small chair at a card table, drawing in charcoal and grease pencil.”