Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the
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Alice Harvey’s First & Last New Yorker Cartoon Alice Harvey’s work appeared for 18 years in The New Yorker, beginning in 1925, its first year of publication. Ms. Harvey went on to publish over 160 drawings, 3 covers, and one piece of fiction (“A Taxi-Driver Comments On The Whalen Plan”…Feb. 9, 1929). As Liza Donnelly wrote in her book, Very
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How wonderful to open yesterday’s New York Times and see the above. The piece, written by Janaki Challa, had been online for days on the Times website, but there’s something more, um, “real” about seeing an article in the actual publication. I have seen at least one online mention that Ms. Shermund’s passing in 1978 was “ignored” by the Times,
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David Sipress: The Ink Spill Interview, Part 2 In Part 2 of my interview with New Yorker cartoonist, David Sipress, whose book, What’s So Funny?: A Cartoonist’s Memoir will be out March 8th, we talk about a dozen or so of David’s New Yorker drawings: where they sprang from, what he was thinking about them at
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