Eustace Tilley
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Eustace Tilley is a caricature that appeared on the cover of the first issue of The New Yorker in 1925 and has appeared on the cover in various forms of every anniversary issue of the magazine except
Johan Bull drew Tilley for Corey Ford's "The Making of a Magazine" parody starting in August 1925. Closeups like this first appeared in Chapter XVII.
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Monocle
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A monocle is a type of corrective lens used to correct or enhance the visual perception in only one eye. It consists of a circular lens placed in front of the eye and held in place by the eye socket i
Eustace Tilley
…symbol of The New Yorker magazine—the aristocratic, top-hatted Regency dandy, Eustace Tilley, studying a fluttering pale pink butterfly through a monocle". The Comics Journal says his depiction is incongruous: "a seeming sophisticated man-about-town who is so vapidly empty-headed as to find a fluttering…
Joseph Chamberlain wearing a monocle
A 20th-century gold plated monocle with gallery
Generalfeldmarschall Hugo Sperrle wearing a monocle