Peter Arno In The Society of Illustrators Hall Of Fame Peter Arno, the great, if not the greatest New Yorker cartoonist, is one of the SOI’s 2025 Hall Of Fame inductees. Go here to see more on Arno as well as all the other hall of famers. –above: Arno poses for Time magazine in 1928 Here’s Arno’s A-Z Entry:
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Until modern times*, it wasn’t that often we’d see one cartoonist reference another cartoonist’s work. Here’s an example from (I’m guessing) 1947, when Hollywood turned out the Danny Kaye film of Thurber’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. In this case, the cartoonist referencing another was Robert Kraus, a New Yorker colleague of Thurber’s… but the drawing did not appear
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Now That’s A Cover! From H.O. Hofman, who produced thirteen covers for The New Yorker, three drawings*, and an untold number of Spot drawings. The first Hofman cover appeared April 18, 1925 and the last is the one you see here, June 4, 1927. Absolutely love the playfulness of this; it looks like something the artist would’ve done not for
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J.C. Duffy IDs His Bill Maher “Decoded” Cartoon J.C. Duffy, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998, has posted his New Yorker drawing that was discussed (or “decoded” as Mr. Maher puts it) in the latest clip of Maher describing New Yorker cartoons and then reading the captions (without actually showing the drawing itself). Mr. Maher’s decoding is
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