A Great Cartoonist…Arnie Levin Arnie Levin, in my humble opinion, is one of the great post-James Geraghty era New Yorker cartoonists. Levin arrived at the magazine in 1974, not long after Lee Lorenz was appointed The New Yorker‘s art editor (back then the art editor’s duties included editing cartoons, covers, spot drawings, and illustrations — in other words: all art).
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40 Years Ago In The New Yorker 40 years doesn’t seem all that long ago, but as it concerns The New Yorker‘s cartoonists, it was an entirely different world then. Only two of the sixteen cartoonists in the issue of June 3, 1985 are still with us: Arnie Levin, who did the fab cover, and Mick Stevens. I can’t show
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A New Yorker Bound Volume, February – April 1978 Until this week, I’d never come across a New Yorker bound volume containing my first cartoon for the magazine (I found a volume sometime back containing Whitney Darrow, Jr.’s cartoon based on my idea — that drawing appeared in the issue of December 26, 1977).
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Article Of Interest: Liana Finck From Columbia Spectator, October 30, 2024, “How To Exist: 10 Topics with Liana Finck” Ms. Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. __________________________________________________________________ Product Watch: Sam Gross & Arnie Levin Cocktail Glasses Here’re two glasses that showed up on Ebay — New Yorker cartoon “product” I’ve never seen before. Both
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