The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: rain
The Cartoonists And Cartoons:
Eleven cartoons, eleven cartoonists. No newbies. No duos, that we’re aware of. The longest active cartoonist in this issue is Roz Chast, who began contributing in July of 1978.
Very nice to see Pete Mueller’s work back in the magazine. Mr. Mueller began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998 (visit his website here).
The Cartoon Caption Contest Cartoonists: P.C. Vey, Tom Toro, Kit Fraser
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
Back in the Spring of 2017, the above perfect design by Rea Irvin was put in a drawer and replaced — if you can believe it — by a redraw. The Spill continues to hope the real deal returns. 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.