My thanks to New Yorker cartoonist, Liam Walsh, for passing along this link to a clip from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1944 film, Lifeboat, wherein Eustace Tilley has a cameo at the 2:04 mark. Note: Russell Maloney profiled Hitchcock in The New Yorker, September 10, 1938; great reading, including this tidbit about Hitchcock’s dining habit: “He likes to eat steak and ice
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Above: a glimpse of the first New Yorker cover. Ever since Tina Brown broke the sixty-nine year string of unbroken appearances by Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley on the anniversary issue in 1994 by running R. Crumb’s Eustace Elvis, there’s always been, for me, some nail biting in early February about whether the real Eustace will show up on
Read morePosted Note: Happy 87th
With The New Yorker’s 87th birthday just around the corner (the very first issue was dated February 21, 1925) I thought it would be fun to muse about the magazine’s present cartoon universe. What New Yorker cartoonists do so well and have done so well over eight decades is knee-jerk to their time. The New Yorker’s hands-off system, begun by
Read moreThe First New Yorker Cartoon
As the 86th anniversary of The New Yorker approaches, I’ve played a bit of New Yorker Trivial Pursuit, thinking about the first issue, and wondering who had the very first cartoon in the first issue of The New Yorker. Once you’ve made your way past the famous Rea Irvin Eustace Tilley cover, and have turned the first page (with its
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