It being The New Yorker‘s 96th anniversary week, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look at the cartoonist line-up in the magazine’s very first issue, dated February 21, 1925. There weren’t many cartoonists in the issue, but then again the issue was only 31 pages. I’m showing the artists in order of their work’s appearance, along
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Another Harvey In The House I fell for this Alice Harvey original drawing the instant I spied it online. Luckily it has found its way to the Spill’s archives. Published in The New Yorker March 20, 1926, it was one of Harvey’s first dozen cartoons in the magazine (the Spill collection includes Ms. Harvey’s first captioned New Yorker drawing, published
Read moreAl Frueh’s Stage Folk Here’s a true oddity, and an expensive one at that: Al Frueh’s Stage Folk: A Book of Caricatures, published in 1922. A copy went for a little over a thousand bucks when sold by Hakes Auction in 2010. I know what some of you might think: The New Yorker didn’t begin publishing until 1925, so why
Read moreLiza Donnelly, who began contributing to The New Yorker 40 years ago this year, will be at the 31st Festival National des Humoristes in Tours this coming week. Ms. Donnelly’s poster for the festival appears above. Here’s the info, in English, on Ms. Donnelly from the Festival’s website: ___________________________________________ Profile Of Interest: Al Frueh Here’s a short but informative profile
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