Rea Irvin , the magazine’s first art editor, is best known for creating Eustace Tilley , the monocled dandy whose upturned nose has graced our pages for a hundred years. Irvin established the stylish and refined look of The New Yorker , brought in countless new artists, and also penned many early covers that display his graphic mastery.

Next month, a new book edited by the New Yorker artist R. Kikuo Johnson and the cartoonist Dash Shaw reintroduces one of Irvin’s lesser-known pursuits: “ The Smythes ,” a Sunday comic page that ran in the New York Herald Tribune and a few other newspapers beginning in 1930. Irvin’s characters followed the form of “ Bringing Up Father ,” an immensely popular series about an overbearing wife and a put-upon husband written by the master cartoon

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