The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of November 21, 2022
The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker
The Cover: politics (this cover mentioned last week).
The Cartoonists & Cartoons:
Sixteen cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover, Emily Flake has a “Sketchpad,” and the “Spot” drawings are by Millie von Platen). No duos, that we know of. One newbie, Lynn Hsu, the 25th cartoonist added to the magazine’s stadium of cartoonists this year, and the 128th brought in since Emma Allen took the cartoon editorship reins in May of 2017. The longest active contributor in the issue is the great Edward Koren, whose work first appeared in The New Yorker issue of May 26th 1962.
See a slide show of all the issue’s cartoons here.
The Cartoon Caption Contest Cartoonists: Harry Bliss, Shannon Wheeler, David Borchart.
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
The above Talk design, created by the one-and-only Rea Irvin, appeared for 92 years until May of 2017, when it was replaced by — gasp! — a redraw to mark the move of The New Yorker‘s offices from midtown Manhattan to lower Manhattan. Let’s hope the original one day replaces the redraw. Read more here.
Rea Irvin’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:
Rea Irvin (pictured above. Self portrait above from Meet the Artist) *Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972. Irvin was the cover artist for the New Yorker’s first issue, February 21, 1925. He was the magazine’s first art and only art supervisor (some refer to him as its first art editor) holding the position from 1925 until 1939 when James Geraghty assumed the title of art editor. Irvin then became art director and remained in that position until William Shawn officially succeeded Harold Ross in early 1952. Irvin’s last original work for the magazine was the magazine’s cover of July 12, 1958. The February 21, 1925 Eustace Tilley cover had been reproduced every year on the magazine’s anniversary until 1994, when R. Crumb’s Tilley-inspired cover appeared. Tilley has since reappeared, with other artists substituting from time-to-time.