The Thanksgiving Turkey’s New Yorker Cover & Cartoon Debut

Two Thanksgivings passed by in the New Yorker‘s earliest years before a turkey made the cover.  The artist for the issue of November 19, 1927: the one-and-only Rea Irvin. Here’s Mr. Irvin’s entry on Ink Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”: Rea Irvin  (pictured above. Self portrait above from Meet the Artist) *Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972.

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