For the third year in a row, The New Yorker's celebrated its anniversary by asking readers to submit illustrated riffs on the magazine's iconic cover, created in 1925 by Rea Irvin, the magazine’s first art editor, who also designed the distinctive New Yorker headline type. The original features a fictional dandy, Eustace Tilley, inspecting a butterfly. As Louis Menand explained, the character "seems to be saying something about the magazine itself, and the question is: What? Is the man with the monocle being offered as an image of the New Yorker reader, a cultivated observer of life’s small beauties, or is he being ridiculed as a foppish anachronism? Is it a picture of bemused sophistication or of starchy superciliousness?" (If you're a subscriber, you can peruse the first issue, online here.) The first three images in this gallery are taken from the official "winners" this year; our favorites follow in the last four images. more ›

The New Yorker finally announced the twelve winning entries in their annual Eustace Tilley cover contest, and this year both Bansky and the iPhone get some love! They have a gallery of all winners on their site, and say "a sample of the winning covers also appears in the February 9 and 16, 2009, issue of the magazine, which celebrates our eighty-fourth anniversary." more ›

Looking for something to do over your holiday break? Bust out the thinking caps and put pen to paper for this year's Eustace Tilley contest! Last year saw an MTA subway map Tilley, and a Mr. Burns-Tilley; so far this year's entrants aren't on full display over at Flickr, but the mag does offer up this Barack Obama version of the iconic dandy. more ›

The New Yorker has finally announced the winning entries in their Eustace Tilley contest. The winning dandies will appear in the February 11th-18th issue of the magazine, their 83rd anniversary issue. The magazine’s art editor, Françoise Mouly, talked with Matt Dellinger about the nearly three hundred submissions they received, as well as the history of Tilley -- listen here. more ›

Put your pencils down, The New Yorker's Eustace Tilley contest is over! The magazine will be announcing the winner on February 4th, but their Flickr Pool is currently stocked with all of the entries. Check out the iconic dandy reinterpreted here, a few of our favorites are above and below. more ›

Last week we mentioned The New Yorker's invitation for one and all to draw their "mascot" and cover boy, Eustace Tilley. From iPods to Einsteins, there are plenty of submissions in their Flickr Pool already, check them out here. more ›

The New Yorker invites one and all to create a Eustace Tilley! The now iconic character first appeared in 1925 on the cover of the magazine's debut issue, and has returned every year for the anniversary. more ›