Now That’s A Cover! With the news of a new Westminster champ this morning (“Penny,” a doberman), I thought it would be fun to see an early New Yorker dog-themed cover. Above is I.G. Haupt‘s 22nd cover for The New Yorker (out of 44). Curiously, this was the first dog-themed New Yorker cover. I just breezed through all of the
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Event Of Interest: Lia Strasser & Bizzy Coy This duo began contributing to The New Yorker in May of 2024 _____________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of February 1, 1936 A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine takes its patented close-look at a long ago issue. This week
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Fourteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists. No newbies, no duos, that we know of. The longest active cartoonist in the issue is this cartoonist (see the Caption Contest below). I began contributing to the magazine in 1977. This
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Personal History…A Box Of Time Spent There is one certain thing in this cartoonist’s life: rejection. I’ve been submitting drawings, without fail, on a weekly basis, to The New Yorker for 49 years. Most (and often all) of the drawings in every single batch are rejected (the number of drawings submitted in the weekly batch is entirely up to the
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