Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook
From The New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2021, “The Books We Loved As Children Can Comfort Us At The End” — a graphic account by Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999.
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…Blitt’s Kvetchbook, December 31, 2021, “Ringing In The New (On Zoom)”
….Today’s Daily Cartoon, from Maggie Larson, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017.
…Daily Shouts Cartoonist, “A Philosophy Course Taught By Your Favorite 2021 Memes” from Ali Fitzgerald, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016.
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Personal History: Desk Moving, Pt. 3
Wrapping up the look around the view from my recent desk move*, here are two drawings to the northeast of the desk, between two windows:
A version of Mournful Elephants, found in Arno’s 1949 collection, Sizzling Platter. Several of these alternates (or roughs) have made their way out into the world. The differences between the one shown here and the one in the collection are slight, a thicker or thinner line here and there; the elephant’s toenails have slightly different shapes.
Below the Arno is a Wallace Morgan drawing that accompanied Walter Davenport’s piece, “Saratoga in August” in Liberty magazine, August 8, 1925. I really like the way this is cut up along the lower edge.
Rounding out the room: just behind the desk is an Anatol Kovarsky drawing that appeared in The New Yorker, September 6, 1947, and below it an undated pencil sketch of a proposed New Yorker cover by Garrett Price.
*Funnily enough, while putting together these posts about what can be seen from my newly relocated desk, I decided to return the desk to where it has been for a number of years. If I did a 360 degree tour of the new old space you’d see an Alice Harvey drawing**, a Thurber, and two Helen Hokinson’s.
** The Alice Harvey drawing, published in The New Yorker March 20, 1926, and below it, our second eldest cat.
Happy New Year to all!
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From the A-Z: artists mentioned above…
Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8, 1904, New York City. Died February 22, 1968, Port Chester, NY. New Yorker work: 1925 -1968. Key collection: Ladies & Gentlemen (Simon & Schuster, 1951) The Foreword is by Arno. For far more on Arno please check out my biography of him, Peter Arno: The Mad Mad World of The New Yorker’s Greatest Cartoonist (Regan Arts, 2016).
Wallace Morgan Born, New York City, 1873; Died, May 1948. From a New York Times article, Jan 27, 1949 “Trio of Exhibitions Marks Week in Art”: “Morgan made his fame especially with his reporting for The New York Herald, with his popular ‘Fluffy Ruffles,’ his illustrations for Harper’s, Scribner’s and The Century; his Saturday Evening Post illustrations of P.G. Wodehouse.” New Yorker work: 1st issue, February 21, 1925 – 1946. Link to Morgan’s Society of Illustrator’s 1977 Hall of Fame Inductee page: www.societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Hall-of-Fame/Past-Inductees/1977–Wallace-Morgan.aspx Morgan’s Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Morgan (the Soc of illustrators and the Wiki post disagree on his birthdate).
Anatol Kovarsky (photo above, NYC, 2013. By Liza Donnelly) Born, Moscow. Died, June 1, 2016, NYC. Collection: Kovarsky’s World (Knopf, 1956) NYer work: 1947 -1969. Link to Ink Spill’s 2013 piece, “Anatol Kovarsky at 94: Still Drawing After All These Years”
Garrett Price ( Photo source: Esquire Cartoon Album, 1957) Born, 1897, Bucyrus, Kansas. Died, April, 1979, Norwalk, Conn. Collection: Drawing Room Only / A Book of Cartoons (Coward -McCann, 1946). NYer work: 1925 -1974.
Alice Harvey Born 1894, Austin, Illinois. Died, 1983. New Yorker work: Oct. 17th, 1925 – May 1, 1943. An illustration by Ms. Harvey accompanied Ellin Mackay’s celebrated November 28, 1925 New Yorker article, “Why We Go To Cabarets” — the piece often credited with helping boost the fledgling New Yorker’s circulation.