The Digital “Interviews Issue”
The last time we saw a “digital issue” was the summer of 2022 (the Spill had a lot to say about it) and less to say about the first digital issue.
left: the summer of ’22’s digital issue
I could be completely wrong — I hope I am –but the march of technology suggests the digital format as the future. Time, as always, will tell.
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Was More Tilley Less Tilley?
From Attempted Bloggery, February 15, 2023, “Natural Selection: Chris Ware Preliminary Cover Art”
— a Spill fave blog looks at a thirteen year old New Yorker anniversary issue, and its Tilley variations.
left: The New Yorker‘s first issue. Cover by Rea Irvin.
Rea Irvin’s Spill A-Z entry:
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. Number of New Yorker covers (not including the repeat appearances of the first cover every anniversary up to 1991): 163. Number of cartoons contributed: 261.
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Interview Of Interest: Victor Varnado
From WABE, February 15, 2023, “Comedian Victor Varnado Deconstructs Racism In Humorous New ‘Anti-Racism’ Book”
Mr. Varnado began contributing to The New Yorker in the summer of 2019.