Less than a year before Harold Ross published the very first issue of his brainchild, The New Yorker, he briefly edited a well-established humor magazine, Judge. I recently bought a copy of the Ross period Judge to see what I could see (it’s the issue of July 19, 1924). it was odd, but of course not unexpected, to
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Mystery Cartoonist found!; Cartoonography
With the help of colleagues Mike Lynch, Brian Moore and Rick Marschall, I was able to identify the mystery New Yorker cartoonist mentioned in the February 21st Ink Spill post. His name is Alfred Leete. His bio appears in numerous places as he was famous for a poster he designed in 1914 (if you go to his bio you’ll see
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