When we think about The New Yorker’s early years and its marquee personalities, John Mosher’s name doesn’t come up very often, if at all. And yet, he was the person who, in Katharine White’s words, “discovered” James Thurber. Mosher’s work at The New Yorker included reading unsolicited manuscripts (he was also the magazine’s first regularly assigned film critic). It was
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_______________________________________________________________________ Ad Of Interest: “The Cream Of New Yorker Art” Here’s a fun ad found in The New Yorker issue of November 27, 1937. Here’s what the Spill’s copy of the book looks like (alongside the Album’s original cover appearance on the New Yorker issue of December 14, 1935. Artist: William Galbraith). And here’re the Albums, up to 1975.
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Once again going through issues of The New Yorker, chronologically (the last time I did it I was researching Peter Arno), I came across things I hadn’t noticed before (or had noticed but hadn’t saved). Here’re are just a few from my recent stroll through The New Yorker‘s past: I enjoyed this ad from the issue of December 21, 1929
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, twelve cartoonists. No newbies. No duos, that we know of. The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is this cartoonist. This week’s cartoons. The Caption Contest. The Rea Irvin Talk Watch: Back in
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