Drawn

The always enlightening blog entitled Filboid Studge has started an examination of the life and work of the New Yorker’s first employee, Rea Irvin. I look forward to learning more about the man behind the fop.

Above, a detail from a 1914 Life magazine illustration.

Filboid Studge has quickly become one of my favorite recent discoveries, by the way. The scans are always gloriously clean and there’s a rich archive of illustration history to be enjoyed, so dig in.