A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The October 22, 1932 Issue A fun Sunday read from the always informative blog, A New Yorker State OF Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine. The issue’s cover is by Peter Arno. Mr. Arno’s entry on the A-Z: Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8, 1904, New
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Edward Graham, Discovered, Added To The A-Z Looking through (way way) back issues of The New Yorker seems a distant cousin of panning for gold. I’m not sure I’ve ever gone through an issue from the past without finding something that stirs up my brain cells. After coming across the mystery cartoonist mentioned here yesterday, I came upon another cartoonist
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Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Ellis Rosen & Emily Flake New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw, interview their colleague Ellis Rosen in the latest episode of The Cartoon Pad. Listen here. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999, and Mr. Rosen in 2016. _____________________________________________________________ And over on the Cartoon Caption Contest
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Three Book Ads Here’s a trio of ads I ran across this morning while having a fun breeze through of some late 1970s, early 1980s New Yorkers.* Seeing the Steig book ad, I’d forgotten the Lillian Ross intro — I’m inspired to dig the book out of the Spill library and see what Ms. Ross had to say about
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