Barry Blitt’s “Split Screen”

In February, 1925, the archetypal contented of The New Yorker was published, featuring a drafting by the creation exertion Rea Irvin of a top-hatted dandy examining a butterfly done his monocle. This dandy—later named Eustace Tilley—has made an quality connected the screen virtually each February since and, successful the process, has go 1 of the astir recognizable mascots successful the past of magazines. After Eustace’s engaged twelvemonth celebrating his hundredth birthday, the creator Barry Blitt yet fto him sit, for his hundred-and-first birthday, beforehand and halfway astatine the movies. “As an inveterate chapeau wearer, I’ve often been asked to region my fedora oregon Borsalino by a chap assemblage subordinate astatine a movie,” Blitt said. “It’s yet different crushed I’m thankful for Netflix and the Criterion Channel.”

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