Edward Sorel’s New Website
The great caricaturist, Edward Sorel, has a new website. It can be found at Edwardsorel.net
I spent time with it yesterday and saw plenty of Sorel art I’d never seen before (the vintage Sorel magazine covers for instance). A real pleasure to browse through!
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Edward Sorel’s A-Z Spill entry:
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Edward Sorel (self-portrait above from a strip appearing in The Nation following the death of Marlene Dietrich. Drawing used by permission of Mr. Sorel). Born 1929. New Yorker work: 1990 – . All of Mr. Sorel’s books are of great interest; Unauthorized Portraits (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997) is particularly essential. His Profusely Illustrated: A Memoir (Knopf, 2021) is a must-read as well.
When I told my friend Cullen Murphy that AMERICAN HERITAGE Magazine had asked me to write an article about Charles Saxon, he told me that his father, John Cullen Murphy (creator of Prince Valiant), was a close friend and neighbor of Saxon in Newport, Connecticut. Subsequently I phoned John Cullen Murphy, and in course of my call I expressed my surprise that a WASP like “Chuck” Saxon could so clearly see the foibles of his own social class. “Oh, Chuck isn’t a WASP,” he replied, “his real name was Isaacson.” I, who was also a Jew who had changed his last name, couldn’t help but admire Chuck’s wit in turning Isaacson to “I Saxon.”