Here’s an interesting little booklet from the Spill’s archives (little as in 5″ x 8″ and just 97 pages), but there’s so much within. The chapter “The New Yorker Cartoon and Modern Graphic Humor” by M. Thomas Inge is especially of interest, for obvious reasons. Mr. Inge provides a survey of the magazine’s art from inception through to the beginnings
Read moreMonth: May 2017
How A Cartoonist Falls In Love With Cartoons; A Thurber Home For Sale
From The Daily Beast, May 20, 2017, “This Is How A Cartoonist Falls In Love With Cartoons” — a piece by Anthony Haden-Guest (with Charles Addams content), His exhibit, The Further Chronicles of Now is at Anderson Contemporary, 180 Maiden Lane, NYC, until June 9th. . __________________________________________________________________________________ From Connecticut’s News-Times , April 7, 2017, “James Thurber Slept Here” — this
Read more81 Years Ago in The New Yorker
Just for the heck of it, I’ve taken a bound volume of The New Yorker off the shelf, and opened it up to the issue dated May 23, 1936. The cover is by Perry Barlow. The cover’s colors are supplied by Mr. Barlow’s wife, Dorothy Hope, as Mr. Barlow was partly color-blind. The festive cover moment doesn’t hint at all
Read moreLatest New Yorker Cartoons Rated; More Von Riegen, and Some Corey Ford
It’s good to see those anonymous critics, Max and Simon, are staying the course and digging into the cartoons appearing in each and every new issue of The New Yorker. This week they look at (and rate) cartoons featuring, among other things, a snail, a yodeler, a proud woodsman, subway rats, and some gangsters wearing matching pants
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