Now That’s A Cover! It took nearly seven years into The New Yorker’s first decade before the editors were comfortable enough (secure enough?) to play with their famous cover masthead. It seems fitting that the artist to do it was Rea Irvin, the fellow who adapted Allen Lewis’s type face for The New Yorker. It came to be known
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The Gray Lady Covers The New York Public Library New Yorker Centennial Exhibit From The New York Times, March 5, 2025, “A Weighty and Whimsical Century of The New Yorker’s Archives” In an (almost) otherwise fine article devoted to the New York Public Library exhibit “A Century Of The New Yorker” it amazes me (and saddens me) that the magazine’s
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library In 1915, a decade before The New Yorker Magazine was born, the book you see above, Journeys To Bagdad, by Charles S. Brooks, was published by Yale University Press. One hundred-and-forty pages,
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: A gem from the ever-active pen of the fab John Cuneo. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. John Cuneo has the cover, Roz Chast has a “Sketchbook,” and Liza Donnelly has the Caption Contest drawing. The
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