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9 completely different covers characteristic twenty first-century renditions of the magazine’s dandyish mascot, Eustace Tilley.

February 18, 2015 

 

The New Yorker turns 90 this year. To have a good time, the magazine has printed this week’s issue with nine different covers, all that includes twenty first-century renditions of its high-hatted, monocled, dandyish mascot, Eustace Tilley.

Tilley appeared on the primary-ever duvet in 1925. “The magazine’s presiding dandy has in view that been parodied, subverted, or deconstructed on most of our anniversary covers,” art director Françoise Mouly explains in the New Yorker. “Contributions with the aid of our artists—and by way of readers collaborating in Eustace Tilley contests—have included comic-strip Tilleys, canine Tilleys, tattooed Tilleys, emoji Tilleys, and twerking Tilleys.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week’s 9 covers—through artists Kadir Nelson, Carter Goodrich, Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Barry Blitt, Istvan Banyai, Lorenzo Mattotti, Peter Mendelsund, and Christoph Niemann—characteristic creative new diversifications on these topics, in pen and ink, oil pastel, collage, and digital mediums. They include a pot-smoking hippie Tilley; an abstract silhouetted Tilley printed with bugs and butterflies; texting hipster Tilley in a bowler hat; and Tilley doing duck lips in a photograph booth. “each brings Eustace Tilley squarely into the 21st century, and proves that art is as alive on the quilt of the journal nowadays because it used to be in 1925,” Mouly writes.

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