The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: New York is the sum of…
The Cartoonists & Cartoons:
Fourteen cartoonists, fourteen cartoons. One duo (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). One newbie: Will Santino (his work first appeared on newyorker.com in 2020). Mr. Santino is the 16th newbie of the year, and the 97th brought in to The New Yorker‘s cartoonist stable under Emma Allen’s cartoon editorship, begun in May of 2017.
Somewhere around here at the Spill is an interesting document I dug up in The New Yorker‘s archives housed at the New York Public Library. It was sent out from the magazine’s editorial department to the artists in the magazine’s earliest days to give them an idea of the kinds of subjects (people, places, things) to set their pens to (I’ll post some of its contents one of these days). This new issue kind of reminds me a little of that ancient document. Here’s a list of the situations — the variety show — we see this week:
A couple in bed; a man and dog out in a field; a family of three at the dinner table; a moment in a china shop; a party scene; a convent scenario; a city street scene; a prairie scene; a gala; a moment in the ocean; a backyard garden; an ad for a gym; a sitting room; a medieval times conversation.
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The Rea Irvin Talk Masthead Watch
The — gasp! — redraw of Rea Irvin’s iconic Talk masthead design (that’s the long-running original above) remains in place. Read all about it here.
In the meantime, here’s a parody Irvin masthead from The University of Washington’s The New Yukker, published in 1956. Not bad!
