The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: A doggie in the window cover, via artist Diana Ejaita. Read a short Q&A with her here. I’m not sure why, exactly, but this later cover made me think of another cover, from long long ago, by
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Update: Looking For Eustace…
From The All Good Things Come To Those Who Wait Dept. Back in June of 2017, I posted this piece: Looking For Eustace Here’s something I’ve done maybe just once before: ask Ink Spill visitors if anyone out there has something I’ve looked for for years but have yet to find. This time it’s the miniature (about 3 1/2 inches
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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of November 16, 2020
The Cover A rarity this new issue: an “after” cover (aside from all the take-offs on Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley). The cover artist, Pascal Campion gives a shout-out to Mark Ulriksen’s November 2012 New Yorker cover, shown below left: Here’s what Mr. Ulriksen had to say about his cover back then. And here’s what The New Yorker‘s art editor, Francoise
Read moreThe Tilleys They Are A-Changin’… The New Yorker’s 95th Anniversary Issue, February 17, 2020
The cover above, by Rea Irvin, appeared on the very first issue of The New Yorker — thereafter it showed up for every anniversary issue from 1926 through 1993. If you happen to have a bunch of those anniversary issues and fan them out on your floor — such as I did back in 2008 — they look pretty neat:
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