Smythes - Rea|johnson Irvin

Rea Irvin (1881-1972) was a graphic artist and cartoonist who served as the de facto first art editor of The New Yorker. He created the magazine's iconic Eustace Tilley cover portrait, designed its typeface, and introduced many of publication's most recognizable and distinguishing design elements. \nR. Kikuo Johnson has illustrated several covers for The New Yorker and published three graphic novels, Night Fisher, The Shark King, and No One Else. In 2023, he was the recipient of the Whiting Award for fiction, the first graphic novelist to receive that honor. \n \nDash Shaw is the author of several graphic novels, including Bottomless Belly Button; Discipline, published by New York Review Comics in 2021; and Blurry, published by New York Review Comics in 2024 and named one of the best graphic novels of the year by The Washington Post. He has written and directed two animated feature films, the most recent of which is Cryptozoo. \n \nCaitlin McGurk is the Curator of Comics and Cartoon Art at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum and Associate Professor at The Ohio State University. McGurk's scholarship and exhibitions center around the work of women in comics, alternative and underground comics, and early American comic strips.\n