Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her
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Thurber Couldn’t Draw? Pshaw! Whenever James Thurber’s drawings come up in conversation (outside of this household) it almost never fails that someone will say, almost as an aside, “But of course he couldn’t draw.” For me, those have always been fightin’ words. Thurber was fond of telling this story (you can see him telling it here at the 16:00 mark):
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A “Larry Hat” Exhibit In The Catskills Andy Friedman, who ofttimes went by “Larry Hat” when contributing cartoons to The New Yorker, is having an exhibit of his work at The Catskills Pines in upstate New York, now through August. Andy Friedman’s A-Z Entry: Andy Friedman aka Larry Hat. New Yorker work: April 23, 2001 -. Mr. Friedman was also
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____________________________________________________________________ Every artist has their own graphic vocabulary — those favorite elements they return to again and again. Some do it out of habit, others out of affection (love even!). I recently looked at a lot of William Steig’s work. One thing that occurred to me as I looked through: he really liked trees. For example, here are some Steig
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