A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker
The Cover: T-day
The Cartoonists:
Twelve cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Roz Chast & Emily Flake share a “Sketchbook”). No duos that we know of, and one newbie, Max Wittert, who is the 18th new cartoonist brought in to the stable this year and the 99th new cartoonist brought in under Emma Allen’s watch as the magazine’s cartoon editor, begun in May of 2017.
The Cartoons:
Cartoon life is good when there’s an Edward Koren drawing in The New Yorker. Mr. Koren, as has been oft noted here, is our longest active artist (he’s been contributing for 59 1/2 years). Here’s his entry on the Spill’s A-Z:
Edward Koren ( photo above, Fall 2016, courtesy of Gil Roth) Born, 1935. New Yorker work: May 26, 1962 — . Key collections: Do You Want To Talk About It? ( Pantheon, 1976), Well, There’s Your Problem (Pantheon, 1980), Caution: Small Ensembles (Pantheon, 1983), What About Me? (Pantheon Books, 1989). Website: edwardkoren.com
Looking through the issue I see that a good percentage of this week’s cartoons — a third — are kid oriented (Robert Leighton’s, Paul Noth’s, Barbara Smaller’s and Johnny DiNapoli’s). Farley Katz has a fun UFO drawing (love the UFO cartoons), and P.C. Vey gives us a drawing vaguely in the vicinity of Thanksgiving with his two-pie caption. Harry Bliss’s somewhat dramatic rendering of a car heading to Grandma’s house is the closest Thanksgiving reference; * Also of note this issue: a lovely drawing by Oren Bernstein (I do wish it had more breathing room on the page; maybe I’ll change my mind when the print edition shows up here). Found the cityscape in Victoria Roberts drawing of interest. It reminds me of this beautiful New Yorker cover by Folon. We can always count on Ms. Roberts to give us more than our money’s worth in her drawings, and that includes, as we see in this new drawing, a terrif backdrop.
See all the drawings in the issue here.
*Since there’s not a turkey cartoon in sight this issue, I’ll offer one up here. It appeared in The New Yorker December 8, 2014...
The Rea Irvin Talk Watch:
The above Talk heading sat in place 92 years before being replaced by — gasp! — a redraw in the Spring of 2017. The Spill continues to hope it will someday return. Read more here.
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Event Of Interest…Tonight!
There’s a virtual event tonight at 6 via Politics & Prose featuring Ken Krimstein in conversation with Paul Karasik discussing Mr. Krimstein’s new lauded book, When I Grow Up.
Mr. Krimstein (self portrait above next to his book cover) began contributing to The New Yorker in 2000; Mr. Karasik (the bottom self portrait) began contributing in 1999.