Back in December of 2009 I posted “In Search of…Al Kaufman” in an effort to find out more about the cartoonist. Other than a few facts sprinkled in a short piece published by The Saturday Evening Post in 1961, and his magazine work in a number of publications I was hard pressed to find any information about Mr. Kaufman. I
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Pat Crow: “You Make It Good”
Pat Crow, a colleague at The New Yorker and a neighbor—he lived down the street —died last week at the age of seventy-one. Pat was the elder statesman among us local upstate New Yorkers, having made his way to The New Yorker in 1967. In an 2001 interview with the Arkansas Gazette, Pat recalled that William Shawn hired him even
Read moreLiza Donnelly CNN Opinion piece: Cartooning Has Been My Savior
From CNN’s Opinion page, January 30, 2011, Cartooning Has Been My Savior by Liza Donnelly (with video content)
Read moreCross Overs: Cartoonists on the Cover
It’s a rare breed now, but once upon a time New Yorker cartoonists who contributed covers to the magazine were the norm. Rea Irvin, who everyone associates with the magazine’s mascot, Eustace Tilley, was the first cross-over New Yorker cover artist/cartoonist. Inotherwords, he did both covers and cartoons. Al Frueh was the first to accomplish both: his was the magazine’s
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