______________________________________________________________________ New Yorker Cartoonists Cover The 100th Anniversary Issue Cover Above: My colleague, Felipe Galindo (aka Feggo) carried around a copy of the 100th anniversary issue over several days of New Yorker partying and asked cartoonists he ran into to sign the cover. He has generously shared it here. More 100th: From The New York Times Style section, February 26,
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From Michael Rosen’s Thurber files, this quote from what I believe to be a Book Of The Month Club newsletter article by Wolcott Gibbs. Here’s Gibbs talking about Thurber transitioning from a managing editor position at The New Yorker to a Talk of the Town rewrite editor: “I think in the end Thurber fired himself as an editor…and began to
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Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles The New Yorker magazine put on the Ritz last night (or, more specifically, put on the Jean’s) for its 100th birthday party. Happily, the weather cooperated — no freak winter storms, sub-freezing temps, or torrential rain — just a good old fashioned chilly dreary Winter’s night in Manhattan. My favorite kind
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Robert Leighton’s Twenty Year Cartoon Retrospective Robert Leighton, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2002, has been posting a drawing a day from each year he’s been with the magazine. You can see them all (so far) here on his Instagram account. ________________________________________________________________________ Emma Allen And Roz Chast In Conversation From The Art Students League, notice of a
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