I’ve had my share of rejection letters from magazine and book publishers. My absolute favorite came from the now defunct magazine, Punch, back in June of 1978. At that time I was reaching out to just about every publication I could find that ran cartoons (UFOlogy and Medical Economics
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Coming this Fall: The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs; Lorenz book jacket illustration from the late 60s
From Random House this November 13th, The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs. Scant information on this, other than that it will be 304 pages, and hardcover. No cover posted as yet. From the I Didn’t Realize I Had This Til Yesterday Dept.: while shifting books around I came across this 1968 Douglass Wallop novel (Wallop is perhaps
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Above: a glimpse of the first New Yorker cover. Ever since Tina Brown broke the sixty-nine year string of unbroken appearances by Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley on the anniversary issue in 1994 by running R. Crumb’s Eustace Elvis, there’s always been, for me, some nail biting in early February about whether the real Eustace will show up on
Read moreIn search of… New Yorker Artist, Andre De Schaub
This morning while searching obituaries in The Complete New Yorker database I came across the very first New Yorker contributor obituary. Written by Katharine White, it appeared in the issue of April 23, 1927. The subject was a New Yorker cartoonist and cover artist, Andre De Schaub, who contributed one
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