Stoliar’s Addams Birthday Salute With Steve Stoliar‘s permission, I’m showing you his Addams Birthday tribute in its entirety (as seen on Facebook): On this day in 1912, Charles Samuel Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. His macabre cartoons festooned copies of “The New Yorker” magazine from 1933 until his death in 1988 and – of course – spawned “The
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First and Last… Carl Rose Carl Rose, who likely will always be associated with E.B. White for the drawing directly below, (it was published in The New Yorker, December 8, 1928), had a long and bountiful career at the magazine; 543 cartoons published* over 46 years. My interest in New Yorker artist’s careers and lives often causes me to take
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The New Yorker Issue Of January 1, 1979 Yesterday, while in the Spill library, I closed my eyes for a moment and grabbed a bound volume of New Yorkers off the shelf. By happy accident, I selected January-February 1979. Opening to the first issue I saw this: Although there have been many many great New Yorker New Year’s covers
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Finding Freddie Packard The “spot” drawings you see above were drawn by Freddie Packard, who began working at The New Yorker in 1929 — he passed away in November of 1974, at age 71 (one of his “spot” drawings appeared in the issue of November 4, 1974). The “spots” were just one of the feathers in Mr. Packard’s New Yorker
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