Edward Koren’s Supermarketing Packet The Spill‘s archives are so much richer because of folks who send objets d’New Yorker cartoon art this way. I’m so grateful for the generosity shown the Spill. A recent arrival is this small postcard size advertising packet featuring the late great Edward Koren‘s art. I looked though all the materials within the packet but could
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Collecting Himself: In the pre-personal computer days, I used to carry around a “Want List” — pages and pages of New Yorker-related book titles and magazines that I’d found listed in bibliographies. The Want List was sort of like a shopping list you’d bring to the grocery store. The difference is that most of what I was looking for in
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Book Of Interest…The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with The Legends Who Lunch My cartoonist colleague, Bob Eckstein brought an episode of Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Show podcast to my attention this morning (thanks Bob!). Mr. Roth has interviewed Mirana Comstock, who edited (her grandfather) Konrad Bercovici’s The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years With The Legends Who Lunch — a
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A New Yorker Cartoon Air Travel Slide Show Emma Allen, The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, presents a slide show of some of the magazine’s artists takes on flying. See it here! — Above: a snippet of the Jack Ziegler drawing included in the slide show. [I’m not flying today, but I am traveling on some of the nation’s highways (and
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