What fun: my three favorite New Yorker cartoon-related sites are present and accounted for today. More New Yorker art history from Attempted Bloggery, which has unearthed yet another New York Times piece — this time about the spectacular Rea Irvin, who left his fingerprints all over the magazine (and they’re still all over it). I was lucky enough
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Attempted Bloggery Recalls A 20 Year Old New York Times Piece on The State of New Yorker Cartoons
As The New Yorker Cartoon Department shifts this week from one era to another (Mankoff to Allen), here’s a blast from the past: Attempted Bloggery reminds us of a long-ago New York Times piece (published June 9, 1997). I’ve always had a fondness for this piece as it includes an amusing attack on my pie crust drawing published in the
Read moreThe Passing of the Baskets
This week, as has been noted here, and plenty of places elsewhere, is Bob Mankoff’s last as the New Yorker‘s cartoon editor. Emma Allen, who is the magazine’s Daily Shouts editor, will become the center of the New Yorker cartoon world next week, and as such, will automatically become the focus of all existing New Yorker cartoonists and all
Read more50 Years Ago in The New Yorker
Every so often I like to take a look at a random issue of The New Yorker from well before my time there, or well before my time, period. This issue, of April 29, 1967 is solidly in the former category. The New Yorker was not yet on my mind — I was in fact, just about to begin transitioning
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