Looking Twice at a Charles Saxon New Yorker Holiday Cover

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Ink Spill’s good friend over at Attempted Bloggery has an interesting post examining  a preliminary cover sketch by Charles Saxon and comparing it to the published cover.  Look for yourself.

 

Below: Ink Spill’s  New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z entry for Mr. Saxon:

Charles Saxon  (self portrait above from Best Cartoons of the Year 1947)  Born in Brooklyn, Nov 13, 1920, died in Stamford, Conn., Dec 6, 1988. NYer work: 1943 – 1991 (2 drawings published posthumously). Key collection: One Man’s Fancy ( Dodd, Mead, 1977).

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