The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: fishin’
The Cartoonists & Cartoons:
Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). Two newbies: Rachel Deutsch, and Eddie Ward, who are the 19th and 20th additions to the magazine’s stadium this year, and the 120th and 121st additions under Emma Allen, since she took the cartoon editor reins in May of 2017. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue — and the longest active New Yorker cartoonist in our time — is the great Edward Koren, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of May 26, 1962.
See a slideshow of all the drawings here (scroll down)
The Caption Contest Cartoonists: P.C. Vey, Paul Karasik, Liza Donnelly
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
The above classic design by the late great Rea Irvin was ditched in the Spring of 2017 in favor of a — gasp! — redraw. The Spill continues to hope upon hope that the original one day returns home. Read more here.
Rea Irvin’ Spill 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.