The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: Mark Ulrisken honors #99, Aaron Judge.
The Cartoonists & Cartoons:
Nineteen cartoonists and nineteen cartoons (not including the Caption Contest Cartoonists…see below). No duos that we know of. One newbie: Nathan Cooper, who becomes the 18th addition to the magazine’s cartoonist stadium this year, and the 119th new addition since Emma Allen took the cartoon editor reins in May of 2017.
The Caption Contest Cartoonists: A new weekly listing of the cartoonists providing the drawings for the Cartoon Caption Contest
This Week’s Contest Drawing: Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski; The Finalists Drawing: Michael Shaw; The Winning Caption Drawing: Michael Maslin
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch
The above perfecto design by the late great Rea Irvin was ditched in May of 2017 and replaced by, if you can believe it: a redraw. Here’s hoping the above is one day returned to its rightful place. Read more here.
Rea Irvin’s A-Z Spill 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.
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Addamsfest Returns
From Home News Tribune, September 26, 2022, “Addamsfest Returns In Westfield This Fall. Here’s What’s Planned”
Link here to the (still in progress) Schedule Of Events & official Addamsfest page.
Charles Addams A-Z Spill entry:
Charles Addams (Born in Westfield, New Jersey, January 7, 1912. Died September 29, 1988, New York City. New Yorker work: 1932 – 1988 * the New Yorker has published his work posthumously. One of the giants of The New Yorker’s stable of artists. Key cartoon collections: While all of Addams’ collections are worthwhile, here are three that are particular favorites; Homebodies (Simon & Schuster, 1954), The Groaning Board (Simon & Schuster, 1964), Creature Comforts (Simon & Schuster, 1981). In 1991 Knopf published The World of Chas Addams, a retrospective collection. A biography, Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, by Linda Davis, was published in 2006 by Random House. Visit the Addams Foundation website for far more information : http://www.charlesaddams.com/