Now That’s A Cover! From H.O. Hofman, who produced thirteen covers for The New Yorker, three drawings*, and an untold number of Spot drawings. The first Hofman cover appeared April 18, 1925 and the last is the one you see here, June 4, 1927. Absolutely love the playfulness of this; it looks like something the artist would’ve done not for
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J.C. Duffy IDs His Bill Maher “Decoded” Cartoon J.C. Duffy, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998, has posted his New Yorker drawing that was discussed (or “decoded” as Mr. Maher puts it) in the latest clip of Maher describing New Yorker cartoons and then reading the captions (without actually showing the drawing itself). Mr. Maher’s decoding is
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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 Cartoonists and Cartoons: Fifteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover). One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is this cartoonist. Always so
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The New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd joins Bill Maher for another installment of Decoding New Yorker Cartoons. It’s almost as much fun watching Mr. Maher try to explain the decoding process to his guests as it is watching the process itself. See it here!
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