Alan Dunn’s 1,981st New Yorker Drawing In my earliest days at The New Yorker it seemed to be a gospel truth that Alan Dunn was the most prolific New Yorker artist. I’ve long been fascinated by how such facts are established as fact. I suppose it could be as simple as someone offhandedly saying to a colleague in an elevator one
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A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: T-day The Cartoonists: Twelve cartoons, fourteen cartoonists (Roz Chast & Emily Flake share a “Sketchbook”). No duos that we know of, and one newbie, Max Wittert, who is the 18th new cartoonist brought in to the
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Tilting The Cartoonists: Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. No newbies, no duos (that we know of). Sam Gross, the magazine’s 5th longest active cartoonist contributor (his first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of August 23, 1969)
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James Montgomery Flagg’s Thurber Came across this portrait of Thurber by one of the biggest names in American illustration of yore, James Montgomery Flagg. Is it just my imagination, or did Flagg’s style get in the way of capturing his subject. James Thurber’s A-Z Spill entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker
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