Not too many weeks ago I mentioned here that a long lost video of my conversation with the late great New Yorker art/cartoon editor, and New Yorker cartoonist, Lee Lorenz had been discovered. I’ve finally managed, with help from a tech-savvy family member, to share it.
The conversation, which took place June 21, 2014, was part of The Westport (Connecticut) Historical Society event, “The New Yorker In Westport.”
— My thanks to Dorothy Curran (who discovered the video and sent it to me), to The Westport Historical Society, and to Gemmarose Tummolo of SpotOn Pictures
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Lee Lorenz’s A-Z Entry:
Lee Lorenz ( Pictured above. Photograph taken 1995 by Liza Donnelly) *Born 1932, Hackensack, NJ. Died, December 8., 2022, Connecticut. Lorenz was the art editor of The New Yorker from 1973 to 1993 and its cartoon editor until 1997. During his tenure, a new wave of New Yorker cartoonists began appearing in the magazine — cartoonists who no longer depended on idea men. Cartoon collections: Here It Comes (Bobbs-Merrrill Co., Inc. 1968) ; Now Look What You’ve Done! (Pantheon, 1977) ; The Golden Age of Trash ( Chronicle Books, 1987); The Essential series, all published by Workman: : Booth (pub: 1998), Barsotti ( pub: 1998), Ziegler (pub: 2001), The Art of The New Yorker 1925 -1995, (Knopf, 1995), The World of William Steig (Artisan, 1998). New Yorker work: 1958 –.