The New Yorker’s First Christmas Issue –Above: S.W. Reynold’s cover — his second of a dozen for The New Yorker The not quite year old New Yorker was still finding its sea legs by the end of 1925. Peter Arno’s Whoops Sisters had yet to appear; Ellin Mackay’s “Why We Go to Cabarets” had just recently broken through and started
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons A double issue, ringing out the old year, and ringing in the new. Fifteen cartoons, seventeen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a Sketchpad, and Barry Blitt has an illustration). One duo, that we know of: Joseph Dottino
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Here’s To Rea Irvin! Above: various objets d ‘Eustace Tilly I threw together this morning, perhaps feeling a bit sentimental as 2025 draws to a close, and with it, much of the hoopla associated with The New Yorker’s 100 anniversary (technically, I suppose, the confetti isn’t swept up til February of 2026). Rea Irvin, who created the fellow we’ve come
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons A dozen cartoons, a dozen cartoonists. No newbies, and no duos (that we know of). The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is this cartoonist (I began contributing in 1977). This week’s cartoons (in a
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