A Riot Of Cartoonists Hard to know how many New Yorker cartoonists packed into a Tribeca establishment last night, at a gathering organized by Zoe Si to celebrate the magazine’s 100th birthday. Some of the cartoonists attending that I spotted in the crowd (possibly a third of all the cartoonists there): Ellie Black, David Borchart, Roland High, Paul Noth, Lynn
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Video Of Interest From The New York Public Library “A Century Of The New Yorker” Here’s a link to “A Century Of The New Yorker” a nearly 15 minute film produced by the NYPL on the occasion of its exhibit of the same name. _____________________________________________________________________ The Daily Cartoonist Gathers New Yorker Centennial Pieces D.D. Degg over at The Daily Cartoonist
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On this day, the 21st of February, the date on the very first issue of The New Yorker, I thought it would be fun to line up each anniversary issue celebrating another ten years that followed that first number. Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley cover was gilded in 1995, and sat out the 2005, and 2015 anniversary covers, but thankfully returned
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“Thurber is The New Yorker‘s most important writer.” So said Dwight Macdonald in the Partisan Review way way back in 1937. Whether you agree or not, it’s an interesting declaration. What’s more interesting, is what else Mr. Macdonald had to say about Thurber: “In general, his treatment of the classic New Yorker comic theme (which he, more than anyone else,
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