The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Issue: This is the second of four planned special issues celebrating The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary. The Cover: Seeing this week’s oval-centric cover, I immediately recalled some of The New Yorker covers contributed by the late great Pierre Le-Tan.
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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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Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of April 28 – May 2, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Sarah Kempa, Ellie Black, Tadhg Ferry, Hartley Lin, J.A.K.. See them here as a slideshow. Shouts & Murmurs: Yinfan Huang “What To Do When Your Friend Unfollows You”
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“The Best Thing The New Yorker Has Ever Done…” I recently dipped into the big box (shown here) here at the Spill that holds numerous Thurber files donated to the Spill library by Michael Rosen, the fellow behind so many Thurber-centric books, including A Mile And A Half Of Lines: The Art Of James Thurber, Collecting Himself: James Thurber On
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