Now That’s A Cover! This is the first in what will be sporadic postings of New Yorker covers, cartoons, spots, or illustrations that jump out at me and make a deep impression. First up is this fantastic cover by the great Perry Barlow. I’ll try to stay away from “classics” many of us are familiar with and stick to art
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The Barbara Shermund New Yorker Cartoon That Turned Up Later As A New Yorker “Spot” Drawing I’ve never seen this happen before (which doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before). A Barbara Shermund drawing that ran as a captioned cartoon in 1926, returned four years later as a “spot” drawing. Here’s how it appeared in the issue of August 28, 1926:
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From last night’s Society of Illustrators “Cartoonists In Conversation,” l-r: panelists Asher Perlman, Zoe Si, moderator Liza Donnelly, and The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (behind them, on the wall, two New Yorker originals: one by Helen Hokinson and the other by Otto Soglow. They’re just two of the 100+ New Yorker originals included in the Society’s current exhibit,
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“What Do You Think About This Caption?” There are enough Thurber books around to keep me re-reading til the lights go out. Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times is just about at the top of my re-read list, although Burton Bernstein’s 1975 Thurber: a Biography is dearer to me. It was my first introduction to a Thurber biography,
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