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Charles Burns "Mutant Tilley: New Yorker" 1993
Ink on paper 17" x 12 1/2"
"Mutant Tilley presents another gleeful twist, as Burns reimagines the magazine's monocled mascot as a sinewy demon with a pustulated neck, examining a hovering mosquito while posed against a postapocalyptic wasteland. It is the testament to the power of Burn's vision that the dandy looks every bit as forbidding as the B-movie monsters that surround him."
Excerpt of the Artforum review by Michael Wilson of the Charles Burns' exhibition at the Adam Baumgold gallery.
Thanks to the comment of Griffen I was able to find the interview with Art Spiegelman where he talks about this piece of Charles Burns.
Art Spiegelman explains how in his view Charles Burns saved his cover (for the 1993 Valentine issue) for The New Yorker: "He did the most monstruous Tilley anyone ever done".
When she - Tina Brown - showed the portfolio of Tilley's for the anniversary edition of the NY to the editors one of the old editors wanted to quit... Then she showed Spiegelmans piece for the Valentine issue "that's nothing".
"He - the editor - would never have said that if that was the first thing he had seen but once he had seen the Charles Burns Tilley, mine fell in the world of normalcy."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4eL082vkCA (around 22:36)
History of Eustace Tilley
https://www.tcj.com/the-true-history-of-eustace-tilley/
From 1925 until 1993 The New Yorker used the same image for their anniversary cover. That changed in 1994 with a cover from Robert Crumb.
Ink on paper 17" x 12 1/2"
"Mutant Tilley presents another gleeful twist, as Burns reimagines the magazine's monocled mascot as a sinewy demon with a pustulated neck, examining a hovering mosquito while posed against a postapocalyptic wasteland. It is the testament to the power of Burn's vision that the dandy looks every bit as forbidding as the B-movie monsters that surround him."
Excerpt of the Artforum review by Michael Wilson of the Charles Burns' exhibition at the Adam Baumgold gallery.
Thanks to the comment of Griffen I was able to find the interview with Art Spiegelman where he talks about this piece of Charles Burns.
Art Spiegelman explains how in his view Charles Burns saved his cover (for the 1993 Valentine issue) for The New Yorker: "He did the most monstruous Tilley anyone ever done".
When she - Tina Brown - showed the portfolio of Tilley's for the anniversary edition of the NY to the editors one of the old editors wanted to quit... Then she showed Spiegelmans piece for the Valentine issue "that's nothing".
"He - the editor - would never have said that if that was the first thing he had seen but once he had seen the Charles Burns Tilley, mine fell in the world of normalcy."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4eL082vkCA (around 22:36)
History of Eustace Tilley
https://www.tcj.com/the-true-history-of-eustace-tilley/
From 1925 until 1993 The New Yorker used the same image for their anniversary cover. That changed in 1994 with a cover from Robert Crumb.
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About Charles Burns
Charles Burns is one of the most notorious authors of horror comics. His instantly recognizable drawings combine crisp, highly stylized linework with dark, disturbing imagery.
