The thanksgiving turkey’s new yorker cover & cartoon debut
Two Thanksgivings went by within the New Yorker‘s earliest years before a poultry made the coverage. The artist for that issue of November 19, 1927: the main one-and-only Rea Irvin. Here’s Mr. Irvin’s entry on Ink Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”: Rea Irvin (pictured above. Self portrait above from Satisfy the Artist) *Born, Bay Area, …