Liza Donnelly On Mary Petty Long-time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly, continues her series on the magazine’s women cartoonists with “The Cartoons of Mary Petty” … Mary Petty’s A-Z entry: Mary Petty Born, Hampton, New Jersey, April 29,1899. Died, Paramus, New Jersey, March, 1976. New Yorker work: October 22,1927 – March 19, 1966. Collection: This Petty Pace ( Knopf, 1945)
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Fave Photo Of The Week Emily Nussbaum (a New Yorker writer, shown below top row, center)) posted this photo on social media yesterday. The photo was taken in Ellenville, New York for the occasion of a panel “Drawing Funny: Jewish Humor and the Art of the New Yorker Cartoon” at the Borscht Belt Fest 2025. Ms. Nussbaum moderated. In the
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Yet another previously-unknown-to-me Thurber cover popped up on social media yesterday. Google translate helpfully informed me that Malos tiempos means “bad times” or possibly “hard times” or “evil times.” Out of all those choices I had a pretty good idea that this was a Spanish edition of My Life and Hard Times. Happily, Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography
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“And We Won’t Aim To Please” In this year of celebrating The New Yorker‘s centennial I think it’s a good idea, every so often, to go way way back to the very beginnings of the magazine. As incredible as it may seem, the below appeared in the second issue of The New Yorker, dated February 28, 1925 (in the column,
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