Two recent additions to our Cartoon Library: Above is a 1949 Dell paperback by the late great Whitney Darrow, Jr.,who died in 1999 at age 89. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1933. I have a special affection for Mr. Darrow — my entry into The New Yorker way back in 1977 began with him executing one
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Booksellers post Big New Yorker Book of Dogs cover
Thurber fans will certainly enjoy the cover and content of the upcoming Big New Yorker Book of Dogs now posted online at your favorite mega-bookseller site. The 416 page hardcover book is due October 30, 2012 (Random House). The online description reads, in part: This copious collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover
Read moreAnatomy of The New Yorker’s Pig at the Complaint Department Cartoon
This week a familiar cartoon showed up on the The New Yorker’s last page as part of its continuing Caption Contest. The cartoon, of a pig at a complaint department, was drawn by Mick Stevens, who has been contributing cartoons to The New Yorker for thirty four years . Why was the cartoon familiar? Fans of
Read moreNew Yorker’s Cartoon Editor on Humor, Kitties and Seinfeld; Slate: “Why Does The New Yorker Publish So Many Pieces About The New Yorker?
From New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Robert Mankoff’s blog on newyorker.com, July 11, 2012, “I Liked the Kitty” From Slate, July 12, 2012, this post by Aisha Harris and David Haglund, “Why Does The New Yorker Publish So Many Pieces About The New Yorker?”
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