The Fourth New Yorker Album of drawings, published in 1931 by Doubleday Doran, was the fourth Album to appear in four years (the first Album was published in 1928). Four in four years! The cover, originally a New Yorker cover (for the issue of January 4, 1930 — see directly below) is the handiwork of the one-and-only Rea Irvin, the
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Bob Mankoff’s Third Act; An Update: Mankoff Puts the Kibosh on an Esquire Look Day
On his 73rd birthday, Bob Mankoff, newly un-hitched from his duties as cartoon editor of the New Yorker, let the word go forth he was immediately beginning a new job as cartoon editor (and humor editor) of the 83 year old men’s magazine, Esquire. Pre-dating Playboy, Esquire was once one of the major markets in this country for cartoons embracing
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POSTED NOTES: Including…A Compendium of Ink Spill Interviews (long and not-so-long); free-wheeling thoughts on New Yorker Cartoons and Cartoonists. Also below: twenty-nine pieces that ran in February 2008 on newyorker.com. I threw together the little scene above for Ink Spillers. The snow globe sits atop Margaret Case Harriman’s Vicious Circle: The Story of The Algonquin Roundtable (Rinehart & Co., Inc.,
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