Now That’s A Cover! It took nearly seven years into The New Yorker’s first decade before the editors were comfortable enough (secure enough?) to play with their famous cover masthead. It seems fitting that the artist to do it was Rea Irvin, the fellow who adapted Allen Lewis’s type face for The New Yorker. It came to be known
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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 Twelve cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Ivan Ehlers has a Sketchpad and Barry Blitt has the cover). Two duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in this issue is Mick Stevens, whose
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Now That’s A Cover! Leave it to Rea Irvin to create the magazine’s first two-way cover. Of his 179 covers this is one of the most unusual (not counting his very first, of course — you know: the magazine’s debut issue featuring the fellow we later came to know as Eustace Tilley). It’s worth remembering that Irvin, along with his
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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: Eleven cartoons, eleven cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of July 3, 1978.
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