Book Launch For Sorel’s “Profusely Illustrated”
Lotsa laffs at last night’s book launch for Edward Sorel’s Profusely Illustrated (published by Knopf) at the Century Association, just a skip and a jump from The New Yorker‘s old offices at 25 West 43rd Street. This cartoonist, accompanied by New Yorker colleagues Liza Donnelly and John Cuneo, dipped into the old building to breathe in some history and marvel at the vaulted ceilinged hallway and charming art deco elevator doors, left as they were decades ago. I could almost envision William Shawn, in overcoat, stepping into “his” elevator, then heading up to the magazine he loved.
Photos: Ed Sorel, and below, Seymour Chwast on the left with John Cuneo; Signe Wilkinson with Steve Brodner. All photos courtesy of Liza Donnelly)
At the Century, some of the folks that popped out of the little stairway that led to the lower level festivities: Graydon Carter, late of Vanity Fair; the legendary Seymour Chwast; the broadway star, Jim Dale (the voice of all the characters in all of the Harry Potter books on tape. When he speaks, one is ever-so-briefly transported to Hogwarts and beyond); Steven Heller; Photographer, Anne Hall Elser, former editorial staff member of The New Yorker; illustrator & caricaturist, Steve Brodner; Pultizer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, Signe Wilkinson; James McMullen of Lincoln Center poster fame, and the designer, Walter Bernard.
And the book? As previously stated on this site: well worth the price of admission.
More Sorel!
Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Show has posted its latest episode: the guest is the aforementioned Ed Sorel. You can hear it all here.
and…Link here to Mr. Roth’s Comics section, where you’ll find many bushel baskets of New Yorker cartoonists and illustrators.