Once again going through issues of The New Yorker, chronologically (the last time I did it I was researching Peter Arno), I came across things I hadn’t noticed before (or had noticed but hadn’t saved). Here’re are just a few from my recent stroll through The New Yorker‘s past: I enjoyed this ad from the issue of December 21, 1929
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, twelve cartoonists. No newbies. No duos, that we know of. The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is this cartoonist. This week’s cartoons. The Caption Contest. The Rea Irvin Talk Watch: Back in
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The Barbara Shermund New Yorker Cartoon That Turned Up Later As A New Yorker “Spot” Drawing I’ve never seen this happen before (which doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before). A Barbara Shermund drawing that ran as a captioned cartoon in 1926, returned four years later as a “spot” drawing. Here’s how it appeared in the issue of August 28, 1926:
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“What Do You Think About This Caption?” There are enough Thurber books around to keep me re-reading til the lights go out. Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times is just about at the top of my re-read list, although Burton Bernstein’s 1975 Thurber: a Biography is dearer to me. It was my first introduction to a Thurber biography,
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