Above: Edward Frascino With Aristide Maillol’s “The Mediteranean” at The Museum Of Modern Art, about 1955. Photo courtesy of Mr. Frascino When I joined The New Yorker’s stable of cartoonists in the late 1970s there were perhaps two dozen regulars whose work anchored the magazine’s art. The strength of the stable was, as you would expect, superior cartoonery
Read moreBarney Tobey’s First Cover A New Yorker State of Mind takes its usual thorough look through a past issue. This week it’s the issue of April 26, 1930, which features Barney Tobey’s first (of four) covers for the magazine. Read all here. Mr. Tobey’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Barney Tobey Born in New York City, July, 18, 1906, died
Read moreAs mentioned here last week, it’s double issue time again. We’re halfway though it now ; only a week til the new issue (dated June 18, 2018) appears online early Monday morning. Just for fun I thought I’d go back to another June 18th issue — the one from 1984. Here’s the cover, by Susan Davis, who contributed fifteen covers
Read moreThe cover above has always been a favorite. The first time I came across it I thought I’d stumbled upon a printing error. But no, it’s yet another gift from Rea Irvin, cover artist, designer (as in his designs for the magazine’s masthead, as well as his adapted development of the typeface), cartoonist, “art supervisor” (his unofficial or official designation
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