It’s Just A Coffee Mug…Right? Yesterday I came across a New Yorker ad for a coffee mug. This is the ad: Funny (to me) that it’s called the “Irvin Edition.” Funny because the work you see on the mug was not drawn by Rea Irvin. It is a redrawn version of Rea Irvin’s iconic design, facilitated in 2017 by a
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I’m a sucker for certain New Yorker “product” — my favorite sits on my desk: a paperweight* bearing the iconic cover of The New Yorker ‘s inaugural issue (you know, the issue with Rea Irvin’s classic Eustace Tilley cover). The paperweight was sold some years back — I don’t remember when (10 years? 15?). So when a Google Alert turned
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A beauty by Christoph Niemann. Read a short Q&A with him here. The Cartoonists: Fifteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists. No newbie this week. The Cartoons: As always, a real pleasure seeing a drawing by Edward Koren (it’s on
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_________________________________________________________ Personal History…My Big Find At least twenty years ago, possibly thirty, I walked into a Moose Lodge “Antique” show in upstate New York (it was really more of an indoor yard sale than an antique show). Strolled through, and was heading out the door when I noticed a partially unfolded large poster leaning against a wall. I could see
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