Fave Photo OF The Week: Maggie Larson And The Sturgeon King Maggie Larson, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, posted this photo on social media the other day. We see Ms. Larson standing with The Sturgeon King himself. Ms. Larson is holding an original New Yorker drawing that originally appeared in the December 24, 2024 issue. Visit Maggie
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______________________________________________________________________ Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: Alfred Leete As we lead up to the magazine’s birthday issue, I thought I’d occasionally toss the spotlight onto the cartoons (and cartoonists) appearing in the very first issue (February 21, 1925). The above drawing by Alfred Leete appears on page 14 of that first issue. IDing Mr. Leete took some doing
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Attempted Bloggery Begins To Tour The “Drawn From The New Yorker” Exhibit Stephen Nadler, otherwise known as Mr. Attempted Bloggery, has begun to take us on a tour of the Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration exhibit currently up at The Society of Illustrators. Check it out! –Above: Attempted Bloggery‘s photo of a Johan Bull design for The
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_____________________________________________________________________________ The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Twenty cartoons, twenty cartoonists. No newbies. No duos, that we know of. The longest active contributing artist in this issue is Edward Frascino, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of September
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