Dear New Yorker

Dear New Yorker,
I am a new subscriber to your magazine. I decided to read it because I have decided that I like and can only understand 50% of the articles printed in The Economist. So, I thought well, The New Yorker is pretty intellectual. In fact if I carry that around, I will appear to be more artsy fartsy....not a boring Economist. Maybe I am a little of both. Anyway, I don't know the story of Eustace Tilley.  Okay, I am so grateful for Wikipedia:

The magazine's first cover illustration, a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, was drawn by Rea Irvin, the magazine's first art editor, based on an 1834 caricature of the then Count D'Orsay which appeared as an illustration^[20] in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The gentleman on the original cover, now referred to as "Eustace Tilley", is a character created by Corey Ford for The New Yorker. The hero of a series entitled "The Making of a Magazine", which began on the inside front cover of the August 8 issue that first summer, Tilley was a younger man than the figure on the original cover. His top hat was of a newer style, without the curved brim. He wore a morning coat and striped trousers. Ford borrowed Eustace Tilley's last name from an aunt—he had always found it vaguely humorous. "Eustace" was selected for euphony, although Ford may have borrowed the name from Eustace Taylor, his fraternity brother from Delta Kappa Epsilon at Columbia College of Columbia University.


ANYWAY 


That cover is horrible !!! I opened the magazine on my iPad and I kept waiting and waiting for the picture to load . Then I realized that THAT was the cover. Can I just tell you how much I LOVED the other options including

 Nancy. 


Never the less I am enjoying your magazine. The cartoons are a little bizarre and I am disappointed that you never chose MY contribution, but it's okay. You just don't realize how much cooler I am than you. No, really I am, really, really I am.....