Video Of Interest: Harry Bliss The Center For Cartoon Studies Spring Will Eisner Lecture: “An Hour With Harry Bliss”… Mr. Bliss began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. See it here. Visit Harry Bliss’s website here. __________________________________________________ Catching Up With A New Yorker State Of Mind It’s been too long since we checked in on a Spill fave site,
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96 Years Ago Today: Issue # 1 OF The New Yorker Appeared On Newstands Last night, while re-reading Scott Elledge’s terrif E.B. White bio I came across this passage: “The first issue of The New Yorker appeared on the newstands on Thursday, February 19, 1925. [E.B.White] remembers vividly the momentous afternoon when he ‘swung into Grand Central Terminal’… and ‘laid
Read moreHead on over to a fave Spill blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind, for “Thurber’s Dogs” (it includes a shout-out to the Spill, for which I am very grateful). And as long as we’re on the subject of Thurber’s dogs, don’t forget this wonderful compilation, published in 1955, Saturated, as you’d expect, with pup material, written and drawn. In
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist J.A.K. on masking. Mr. Katzenstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. His latest book is Everything Is An Emergency: An OCD Story In Words & Pictures ________________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of September 12, 1931 As usual, a fun read about a long ago issue of our favorite magazine.
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