With the New Yorker’s 93rd Anniversary issue soon on the horizon I thought it would be fun to take a look at first Tilley covers by Harold Ross, William Shawn, Robert Gottlieb, Tina Brown and David Remnick. I’ve thrown in tidbits of Tilley trivia — mostly non-Tilley trivia — along the way. February 21, 1925: Harold Ross A
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How Is One of These Not Like All the Others? The New Yorker 90th Anniversary Book of Cartoons
The cover says it all.
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker, October 9, 2017
The Monday Tilley Watch is a meandering take on the cartoons in the current issue of The New Yorker. The New Yorker has gone through a number of survivable events in its 92 year history. It nearly folded in its first six months of existence, but survived when Raoul Fleischmann, its original backer, suddenly turned white knight, decided to pump more
Read moreBack-To-Back Cartoonists Covers
Having just mentioned how great it was to see last week’s Bruce Eric Kaplan New Yorker cover, I almost (almost) fell off my chair when the latest issue appeared featuring a Roz Chast cover. A quick scan of the past twenty years or so of covers turned up a couple of other back-to-back appearances by the magazine’s regularly contributing cartoonists.
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