An exceptionally generous friend of Ink Spill recently donated a bundle of rare New Yorker ephemera to the archives. I’ll post some from time-to-time, beginning with this wonderful parody of the New Yorker‘s very first cover. There have been a number of parodies of the Eustace Tilley cover over the years, but until this piece arrived in the mail I’d
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New Yorker Art Editors: James Geraghty, Albert Hubbell & Lee Lorenz
We conclude the Westport Historical Society bios from their current exhibit, Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport with James Geraghty, Albert Hubbell and Lee Lorenz. The three share the distinction of overseeing The New Yorker‘s Art Department between 1939 through 1997. Mr. Hubbell holds a unique position as the only temporary Art editor in The New Yorker‘s
Read moreThe New Yorker’s 89th Anniversary Issue
A very happy 89th birthday to The New Yorker. While there’s no classic Eustace Tilley cover this year (the last time we saw Tilley as Rea Irvin* intended was in 2011, we do have, according to the Art Editor, Francoise Mouly, “the first published Tilley painted on an iPhone”; inside the magazine, not including the drawings on the
Read moreRea Irvin’s Last New Yorker Cover
If you read The New Yorker you are very familiar with at least one of his covers: his first one. Mention The New Yorker and one of the images that comes to mind for most people is Eustace Tilley, the
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