Here’s an early New Yorker oddity in the line of the Albums published. It’s the first published for a specific year. There were later annual Albums (1940, 1942, and much much later 2007, 2008, and 2009). Curious that, for the first time there is no foreword. Perhaps the editors thought they’d take a break after the highly interesting double foreword
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50 Years Ago in The New Yorker
Every so often I like to take a look at a random issue of The New Yorker from well before my time there, or well before my time, period. This issue, of April 29, 1967 is solidly in the former category. The New Yorker was not yet on my mind — I was in fact, just about to begin transitioning
Read moreBook of Interest: E.B. White on Dogs
There are a number of New Yorker alum who had much to do with the magazine’s art, but are not generally thought of as New Yorker artists. E.B. White is perhaps the most famous of the lot, although he did venture big time into the magazine’s art department with the publication of his one and only cover (below) published April
Read moreThe New Yorker before Addams, Steig and Steinberg
With the release this past week of The New Yorker’s Cartoons of the Year 2013 (a relative of a long line of New Yorker Albums seen in the photo) I thought it would be fun to leaf through The New Yorker‘s very first collection, simply called The New Yorker Album. published in
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