The Cover
A rarity this new issue: an “after” cover (aside from all the take-offs on Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley). The cover artist, Pascal Campion gives a shout-out to Mark Ulriksen’s November 2012 New Yorker cover, shown below left:
Here’s what Mr. Ulriksen had to say about his cover back then.
And here’s what The New Yorker‘s art editor, Francoise Mouly (her turf is the magazine’s covers) has to say about Mr. Campion’s “after Ulriksen” cover.
The Cartoonists:
The Cartoons:
Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has a Sketchbook). No newbies this week. Edward Frascino, one of our senior artists both in years contributing, and age (Mr. Frascino, who’s 89, began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965) gives us a lovely (well-placed, well-sized) drawing.
[Note: this coming Sunday, the Spill will spotlight Mr. Frascino]There are more than a handful of cartoons this issue that directly (or semi-indirectly) reflect the times we’re in. Two of the cartoons, one by Marshall Hopkins (who began contributing in 2004) and the other by P.C. Vey (who began contributing in 1993) focus on working at home. Liza Donnelly, a veteran New Yorker contributor (she began contributing in 1982) gives us a drawing (on page 33) that goes even further. Emily Bernstein‘s cartoon (p.58) looks at various facial issues associated with stress; E.S. Glenn‘s drawing (on page 36) references the economic consequences of the pandemic, while Emily Flake‘s up-in-the-air cartoon (p.41) goes much wider.
There’s a sprinkling of non-pandemic, non-political cartoons, with contributions from, among others, veteran contributor Mick Stevens, with a whack-a-mole themed drawing (p.64) to Mary Lawton‘s dogs arriving at a party (p.46) and Seth Fleishman‘s hamsters at a bar (p.22). And then there’s Ed Steed‘s intriguing off-the-wall canoe drawing (p.56).
The Rea Irvin Talk Masthead Watch
After three years, and change, I’m beginning to think the magazine is going to stick with its May 2017 re-draw(!) of Rea Irvin‘s Talk Of The Town design. But… you never know. Perhaps one of these days they’ll bring back the Irvin classic, shown below:
Read more about the masthead here.