Beginnings Of Tilley In An Early Rea Irvin? When comics scholar, Mike Rhode, sent me the below 1917 two-panel drawing by Rea Irvin (more information here on the drawing), my eyes immediately went to the the dancing top-hatted fellow in the second panel. Something very familiar about the waistcoat, the collar, and of course the hat. He’s not Eustace Tilley,
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Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).
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A Great Cartoon I’ve a shortlist of remembered cartoons in my brain that never ever fail to amuse and inspire. Cartoons such as these are often referred to as “evergreens.” They’re not tied into current events, or a fad, or a word or phrase of the moment. I’m not going to list my favorite evergreens here, but will put
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Next up in the Spill‘s First & Last: a look at James Mulligan’s first New Yorker cartoon, and…well, you know. Mr. Mulligan’s a bit of a mystery to me. You would think that for someone — in this case a veteran New Yorker cartoonist — with 501 published cartoons in the magazine, there might be, at the least, an interview
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