Happy 95th, Ed Frascino!
Wishing the terrific New Yorker artist, Ed Frascino a very very happy birthday.
He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965 (his debut cartoon appeared in the issue of September 4th).
Read the Spill’s November 2020 interview with him here.
Below: A Frascino New Yorker drawing, published November 21 1988
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The Tilley Watch Online, November 10-14, 2025
An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features
The Daily Cartoon: Cerise Zelenetz (an online contributor), Emily Flake, Sarah Kempa, Brendan Loper, Drew Dernavich. See them here.
Shouts & Murmurs: Enrico Pinto’s “Preliminary Sketches For The White House Renovation”
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…Tina Brown...The New York Times has an online audio and text interview today with the former New Yorker editor, Tina Brown (she was in that position from 1992-1998; Robert Gottlieb was just before her, and the current editor, David Remnick, followed her). As Ms. Brown was the magazine’s cartoon gatekeeper during those years, she deserves mention here.
…Peter Arno’s “Mind The Omnibus”/”Watch The Omnibus”… A recently purchased copy of Peter Arno’s Circus (published in 1931) came with several prints. One of the prints features Arno’s Whoops Sisters. It’s the smaller drawing shown directly below.
Not quite remembering the drawing, I looked it up in The New Yorker’s database (using the key word “omnibus”) and found the other drawing shown, published in the magazine, April 30, 1927. You’ll see they share both the idea and caption elements. Neither drawing appears in Arno’s first three collections (Parade, 1929; Hullabaloo, 1930; Circus 1931). Nor does either appear in Arno’s Whoops Sisters book, Whoops Dearie!, published in 1927. I don’t recall ever before seeing this kind of cartoon close call happening with Arno’s work. A mystery for me (or anyone out there) to unravel.