Interview of Interest: Sophie Lucido Johnson From Inside Hook, January 10, 2023, “Sophie Lucido Johnson Writes (and Draws) About Parenting and Polyamory) Better Than Anyone” — a short interview with the writer/artist who began contributing (most often as part of a duo) to The New Yorker in 2020. –drawing (from the article): Sophie Lucido Johnson _______________________________________________________________ A Photo
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Thurber Thursday
Maybe this sounds funny coming from someone who spends a lot of time drawing “pictures” but there are plenty of times I like to just take some time off to look at pictures… of New Yorker folks, past and present. Take last night for instance (please!)…oops, sorry, and apologies to Henny Youngman*…. Anyway, last night I typed in James Thurber
Read moreThe First New Yorker Cartoon Issue…and the Last
From 1997 through 2012, the New Yorker published a “Cartoon Issue”; that there was a special issue wasn’t news — the magazine had started publishing them in its new era of ownership under Conde Nast (purists might argue that the issue of August 31, 1946 was the magazine’s first special issue. Beyond the Goings On About Town section, the entire
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