Eustace Tilley (via Bruce McCall) bids adieu to Times Square on the cover of this week’s New Yorker. The magazine begins work in its new headquarters at 1 World Trade this week. The New Yorker’s top-hatted mascot bid goodbye once before, back in August of 1937, when Otto Soglow gave us Tilley, not
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Rea Irvin Parodies His Eustace Tilley New Yorker Cover
An exceptionally generous friend of Ink Spill recently donated a bundle of rare New Yorker ephemera to the archives. I’ll post some from time-to-time, beginning with this wonderful parody of the New Yorker‘s very first cover. There have been a number of parodies of the Eustace Tilley cover over the years, but until this piece arrived in the mail I’d
Read moreBob Eckstein on Live-Drawing the Oscars; Liza Donnelly Live Tweet-Draws the Oscars; Barbara Smaller takes over the Daily Cartoon
Bob Eckstein will be live-drawing the Oscars for The New Yorker‘s website later on today. Link here for the magazine’s coverage. According to a Facebook post, he’ll also provide commentary. I asked Bob to talk a little about the big night and here’s what he had to say: I’m more excited than usual about tonight’s Oscars. This time I
Read moreThe New Yorker’s 89th Anniversary Issue
A very happy 89th birthday to The New Yorker. While there’s no classic Eustace Tilley cover this year (the last time we saw Tilley as Rea Irvin* intended was in 2011, we do have, according to the Art Editor, Francoise Mouly, “the first published Tilley painted on an iPhone”; inside the magazine, not including the drawings on the
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