Ziegler’s repeated vowels

  A fun way to begin the day with this brief but informative post from Stephen Nadler’s blog, Attempted Bloggery:  “The Alliterative Jack Ziegler” (above: Ziegler’s 1978 classic cartoon collection, Hamburger Madness)

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An Arno Easter Cover, and more…

From Stephen Nadler’s fun blog, attemptedbloggery, March 30, 2013, “Peter Arno’s Easter Parade” — Mr. Nadler takes us back to 1931 and the era of top hats on Fifth Avenue. And… On The New Yorker’s website there’s a look at more recent (1993 – 2010) Easter covers that have adorned the magazine.

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Avedon’s Arno Auctioned

  From Stephen Nadler’s fun blog, Attempted Bloggery, December 21, 2012, “Peter Arno’s Mistletoe” The Arno drawing, once given to Richard Avedon by Tina Brown, was recently auctioned at Sotheby’s.   It appeared in The New Yorker, December 26, 1942.  (An Arno war time cover adorned the magazine that week as well).

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