Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of May 26, 2025

The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: Barry Blitt’s latest, released early The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover, and Ali Fitzgerald has a Sketchpad). No duos that we know of, and no newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist

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Sunday Spill: Now That’s A Cover!

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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