The New Yorker’s First New Year’s Cover It seems only right that the New Yorker began a new year with a cover by Rea Irvin, and that Irvin would include Eustace Tilley (appearing, cuckoo clock-like at the stroke of midnight). It was Irvin’s 9th cover in approximately ten months. Tilley made two other appearances in the same issue (not counting
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Now That’s A Cover! 97 years ago today, this cover, by the great Rea Irvin, welcomed in the new year (and decade): …and in that issue, this full page cartoon by Otto Soglow: _______________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, December 22-26, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon:
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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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