It has been written before and it is certainly true that Harold Ross’s great invention, The New Yorker, was a work in progress from the get-go. If you need proof, just take a look at one of the magazine’s signature elements — its Talk Of The Town masthead, created by The New Yorker‘s first and only art supervisor (revisionists
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Bonus Cartoon Pad Podcast The Pad‘s co-hosts, New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw swipe at each other like kittens in this special, shorter bonus edition of the Pad. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999. The duo announced that their next guest will be Mick Stevens*, who began contributing to The
Read moreBookends Teeshirts, caps, scarves, what-have-yous…well why not bookends? A company named Levenger produced these not long ago. Below is a segment from a blog post (from someone who works at the company?) talking about the bookends. The bookends are currently on Ebay, for $100.00. If that’s too much out-of pocket, there’s always the $25.00 Thurber dog bookends on a teeshirt.
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Very Funny Ladies…Indexing Cartoonists are often asked which comes first: the pictures or the words. My answer has always been (for me): I dunno. But lately, as we near Fall and the publication of an updated edition of Liza Donnelly’s 2006 Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, words seem, if not first, then
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New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Panel “Very Funny Ladies” With Donnelly, Chast, Hwang, And Finck It’s back! Amidst all the other panels and appearances this Fall there’s a virtual must-see panel for fans of New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists. “Very Funny Ladies” with Liza Donnelly (whose updated history of New Yorker women cartoonists, Very Funny
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