The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
*A Note to Visitors: As of mid-morning the latest issue had not been posted online. There is the slide show of new cartoons but it’s always preferable (to me anyway!) to see the cartoons as they sit on the page in The New Yorker. Meanwhile, time marches on, and so here’s an abbreviated Monday Spill.
The Cover: A brief interview with the cover artist, Adrian Tomine can be found here.
The Cartoonists:
Lila Ash, P.C. Vey, Darrin Bell, Emily Flake, Julia Suits, Edward Koren, Sofia Warren, Liana Finck, Paul Noth, Tom Chitty, Ellis Rosen, Sam Gross
The Cartoons:
Thirteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has a “Comic Strip”). No newbies this issue (the #s are, with three more issues to go in 2020, 24 newbies added this year, and a grand total of 77 since Emma Allen was appointed cartoon editor in the Spring of 2017).
Beyond happy, as always, to see work by Edward Koren and Sam Gross, two of our most senior artists, measured in years contributing.
Just for fun, here’s a list of the magazine’s top five longest active contributing artists (I’m defining “active” as meaning that at least one drawing by the artist was published in the magazine within the past year), and the date of the issue bearing their first New Yorker cartoon:
Edward Koren (May 26, 1962)
Mort Gerberg (April 10, 1965)
Edward Frascino (September 4, 1965)
George Booth (June 14, 1969)
Sam Gross (August 23, 1969)
For the record, your honor, the next group up, still contributing to the magazine, are some of the crowd I came in with in the mid-to-late 1970s. They are, in order of the appearance of their first published New Yorker cartoon:
yours truly (April 17, 1978)
Roz Chast (July 3, 1978)
Peter Steiner (July 9, 1979)
Mick Stevens December 17, 1979)
Liza Donnelly (June 21, 1982).
The Rea Irvin Talk Masthead Watch
Since I can’t see the new issue (yet) I’ve no idea if the below gem by the late very great Rea Irvin has been returned to the magazine (it was replaced by a …redraw!…in the spring of 2017). Read more here.
