Publisher Henry Holt & Company has posted a short slide show of pages from the forthcoming memoir by New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff. The website page also contains a one minute and fifteen second audio clip of Mr. Mankoff discussing his book. (How About Never — Is Never Good For You? is due March 24th)
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New Yorker’s Golden Age of Art Celebrated in Westport, Connecticut
(Above: Charles Addams at the wheel, with James Geraghty, The New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 through 1973. South Hampton, 1947) For those wanting to bathe in the glow of New Yorker covers and art history from the magazine’s Golden Age, there’s no better place this winter than the Westport Historical Society
Read moreP.C. Vey Talks about Walking a Cat on a Leash, The Spatial Dynamics of Cubicles, Meeting Ziegler, Stevens and Mankoff, and a Bunch of Other Stuff
The world of P.C. Vey (the “C” is for Christopher) was introduced to The New Yorker’s readership November 22, 1993 with the publication of the drawing below: The drawing set the stage for what was to come. Vey people, either male or female seem flounder-ish.His people are
Read moreHappy Birthday, Mr. Arno
The late great New Yorker artist, Peter Arno was born 110 years ago today at home in Morningside Heights, New York. As many regular visitors to Ink Spill know, I began a biography of Mr. Arno back in 1999. Someday, a publisher willing, Mad At Something: The Life and Times of Peter
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