The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna Profiles New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen From The Washington Post, October 5, 2021, this piece by Michael Cavna, “Emma Allen Is Redefining What A New Yorker Cartoon Can Be” — left: New Yorker cartoonist Evan Lian’s caricature of Emma Allen _______________________________________________________________________ A Fun Addams Self Portrait On Attempted Bloggery A Spill fave online destination,
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Attempted Bloggery Looks At A Richard Taylor Cover Rough From Attempted Bloggery, October 1, 2021, “Fear Of The Surreal: Richard Taylor Preliminary New yorker Cover Art” One of the Spill‘s fave blogs takes a look at the evolution of a cover from the late great Richard Taylor. R. Taylor’s A-Z Spill entry: Richard Taylor (self portrait from Meet the Artist) Born in
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Poking around Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State University Press, 1968) I came across wording I’d surely seen before but didn’t really think too much about. In the entry for Thurber & Company, published in 1966, five years after Thurber’s death, we see this: —Seven captions taken from A Thurber Carnival … are substituted for the
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Arno Changes His Mind Stephen Nadler’s latest Attempted Bloggery post, “Peter Arno’s Changing Point Of View” takes an interesting look at graphic decision-making by one of The New Yorker‘s grand masters. I love seeing alternate drawings of published work by cartoonists — sometimes the unpublished version appears “better” than the finish. Here’s a battered but beautiful Arno drawing from Mr.
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