As The New Yorker Cartoon Department shifts this week from one era to another (Mankoff to Allen), here’s a blast from the past: Attempted Bloggery reminds us of a long-ago New York Times piece (published June 9, 1997). I’ve always had a fondness for this piece as it includes an amusing attack on my pie crust drawing published in the
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Personal Archive: A Rejected Easter Cover; John Drummond, Cartoonist & Member of Ink Spill’s One Club Has Died; An Arno Mystery Solved
I’ve submitted a lot of cover ideas to The New Yorker over the years. Two were bought, but never ran, and two others were bought as cartoons (one ran, the other is still in the magazine’s archives). This Easter-themed submission, obviously done when I was in a Charles Addams mood, never got a nibble from the editors. But I’ve always
Read moreWhere Was This Arno?; Cartoon Companion Rates the Latest New Yorker Cartoons; Roz Chast’s Poster; Eckstein’s Upgraded Airline Passenger; Ross Bateup Added to the A-Z
Where did this Peter Arno drawing appear? Attempted Bloggery is looking for the answer. If it was in The New Yorker, it’s somehow eluded the magazine’s record-keepers. Read more here. __________________________________________ Cartoon Companion is back with a close and entertaining look at the cartoons appearing in the April 17, 2017 New Yorker. This issue contains, among others, two costumed characters,
Read moreAttempted Bloggery Looks at an Addams Cover; Kim Warp on Meeting Jack Ziegler
One of my go-to New Yorker-related sites, Attempted Bloggery, takes a look at a recently auctioned later Charles Addams New Yorker cover. See it here. Here’s Mr. Addams entry on Ink Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”: Charles Addams Born in Westfield, New Jersey , January 7, 1912. Died September 29, 1988, New York City. New Yorker work: 1932 – 1988
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