Before my recent interview with Dana Fradon, I did some research — as much as the internet allowed, which wasn’t a heck of a lot — and ran into this first collection of his from 1961. My copy arrived today — the pages yellowed and stiff, but the early ’60s humor intact (over on Mike Lynch’s site you’ll find a
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Tom Cheney: Lessons from Charles Rodrigues
This is the second installment in an Ink Spill series of cartoonists talking about the important cartoon connections in their lives. Felipe Galindo wrote about Steinberg last week. This week, Tom Cheney, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978 (one of his most famous contributions
Read moreFrom the Attic: Cobean, Ross, and Peter Arno
Here’re three more items that will soon be added to the Attic. Above: A Sam Cobean handkerchief. Other than Thurber I can’t think of another of the magazine’s cartoonists who was more fond of delving into the whole man/woman thing. Below: This Timex watch with an Al Ross drawing on its face is not very old,
Read moreIn Good Company: a look at the cartoons in Al Ross’s New Yorker debut issue
The news that Al Ross passed away last week got me to thinking about his start at The New Yorker, way way back in the issue of November 27, 1937, when he was twenty-five years old. This morning I went to our cabinet full of bound New Yorkers, brought out the volume from late 1937 and began paging through
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