_______________________________________________________________________________ Pub Day For Caitlin Cass’s Suffrage Song Article Of Interest: “This Cartoonist Wants to Tell The Complicated History Of Women’s Voting Rights”— an article from The 19(th), featuring Caitlin Cass, whose Suffrage Song: the Haunted history Of Gender, Race And Voting Rights In The U.S. is out today. The Spill congratulates Ms. Cass. Ms. Cass began contributing to
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“Illustration Art: Featuring Highlights From The Collection Of Jules Feiffer” is on for June 20th. The collection contains numerous pieces by such New Yorker contributors as Charles Addams, Mick Stevens, Peter Kuper, Carl Rose, Edward Sorel, Mischa Richter, Leo Cullum, Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Edward Koren, Wallace Morgan, Gahan Wilson, Alan Dunn, and John Held, Jr.. –above:
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The big Thurber news this week is, of course, The New Yorker‘s republication of Thurber’s February 29, 1936 cover (as well as the use of various Thurber animals as Spot drawings throughout the September 4th issue. Below to the left is an original 1936 cover, and the the right, the 2023 cover. Next week I’ll compare the two. Sharp-eyed readers
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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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