Over the years, my standard answer to the question, “How do you come up with ideas?” has always been the same: I don’t know. And that’s true. I don’t come up with ideas. What happens is this: I sit around everyday, waiting for the cartoon gods to bonk me, Krazy Kat-like, on the head with the promise of an idea.
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Now In The Public Domain: Is Sex Necessary? I just came across the four-and-a-half months old news that the original edition of E.B. White & James Thurber’s 1929 edition of Is Sex Necessary? entered the public domain as of this year. Above is the Spill‘s copy, swathed in a plastic protective cover. Seeing this edition on the shelf alongside other
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A few months back my New Yorker colleague, Paul Karasik, sent in a page from the November 18 1929 issue of Judge that included this drawing by James Trembath (I’m sorry to say I can’t find anything on Mr. Trembath): The artist was gently poking at The New Yorker as well as one of its artists, Otto Soglow, who by
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Amy Kurzweil & Jason Adam Katzenstein In Conversation Amy Kurzweil will be in conversation with her fellow New Yorker cartoonist, Jason Adam Katzenstein (J.A.K) this Friday, May 15th. They’ll be discussing, among other things, Ms. Kurzweil’s well received book, Artificial: A Love Story Amy Kurzweil began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit her website here. Jason Adam Katzenstein
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