In honor of the very first issue of The New Yorker, dated February 21, 1925, I’m re-posting a photo I took for “Tilley Over Time“ a piece I contributed to newyorker.com back in February 21, 2008. The cartoonists appearing in that first issue were Alfred Frueh, Gardner Rea, Oscar Howard, Wallace Morgan, Ethel Plummer and, on page 14, an
Read moreMonth: February 2013
Thurston Gentry added to the One Club
This morning, while aimlessly thumbing through a bound book of New Yorkers from late 1937 I paused to look more closely at a drawing with an unfamiliar style. The signature was legible enough for me to decipher, and with that I went to “The Complete New Yorker” database and looked up the cartoonist, Thurston Gentry. I found he had
Read more10 Minutes with Peter Steiner
From townvibe, February 18, 2013, “Ten Minutes with Peter Steiner”— this short interview with the man of many hats (cartoonist, author, painter).
Read moreSpiegelman’s new book; Paul Karasik blogs “stuff” about Angouleme 2013
Out this May from Drawn & Quarterly, Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps by Art Spiegelman. From Paul Karasik’s blog, February 14, 2013, “Rules to Vivere By” — a “not newsy” account of Karasik’s recent visit to the 2013 Angouleme comics festival. Lots of photos, including the one above from a paper museum.
Read more