From Slate, October 25, 2017, “When Did New Yorker Covers Get So Thirsty?” — a piece by Matthew Dessem on the evolution of “specific people” New Yorker covers. The first one, Nov 22, 1941, by Rea Irvin: Top of the post, left: the second one: October 31, 1942 by Rea Irvin ; on the right, the most recent by Carter
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The Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of October 30, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. We are definitely in the Halloween mode in the new issue, and it all begins with Carter Goodrich’s cover; a scary clown looking remarkably similar to our current president peers out from the woods. For some reason my thoughts drifted back
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