In February of 1991 when The New Yorker offices moved from 25 West 43rd Street across the street to 20 West 43rd, some housecleaning was in order. Some of the objects that once sat in the Art Department couldn’t make the move due to space considerations. Among the few generously donated to our collection was this oddity: a large
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It’s just too hot to go up into the Cartoon Attic today so I thought I’d post this drawing of mine that appeared in The New Yorker way back in August of 1996. (The drawing is, of course, copyrighted by The New Yorker Magazine, Inc.)
Read moreAnother from the Cartoon Attic: Whither Whither, or After Sex What?
Whither Whither, or After Sex What? Edited by Walter S. Hankel (1930, The Macaulay Co., NY) I’ve always loved this book more for its cover than its content. It was published just five years after the birth of The New Yorker, and a year before Thurber’s first drawing appeared in the magazine (January of 1931). That isn’t to
Read moreMore From the Attic: Our Own Baedeker from The New Yorker
Continuing on from yesterday’s post, pictured above is Our Own Baedeker from The New Yorker (Simon & Schuster, 1947). Carl Rose supplied ten maps and one hundred and eighty illustrations. The written pieces all ran during World War II. Regular visitors to Ink Spill might well ask, “Why these posts of ancient material all of a sudden?” The answer
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