masthead

Via Laughing Squid comes an interesting segment showing the evolution of the New Yorker magazine mascot, Eustace Tilley. His profile has graced the publication since its first printing but has changed many times over the decades, the original caricature appearing on the cover generally on the magazine’s anniversary. The raffish figure with a top hat and monocle was inspired by the mid-nineteenth century international man of fashion and social butterfly Alfred Grimod d’Orsay, the comte d’Orsay.