There are plenty of stories of Thurber drawing on the walls of The New Yorker‘s offices, but sadly, only a few of those drawings survived. Directly below you see some of them in their original location at 25 West 43rd Street (photo taken by Liza Donnelly years and years ago on the day she and I stopped in to see
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Wheeler, Chatfield, Donnelly, Chatfield, And More On Jules Feiffer From The Comics Journal, February 3, 2025, “Remembering Jules Feiffer” — a number of artists, including The New Yorker folks mentioned above, weigh in on Mr. Feiffer who passed away on January 17th of 2025. _________________________________________________________________ Rea Irvin’s The Smythes From New York Review Comics, word of a forthcoming
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Birthday: A Basic Library If you’re interested in The New Yorker‘s beginnings, there are a number of books around that make for great reading. Whenever I’m presented with a head-scratcher of a question about the magazine’s infancy, I make the rounds looking for a full picture (in other words, I don’t rely on just one
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary We would have to assume that one hundred years ago this week, Harold Ross was sitting with, at the least, a fairly complete “dummy” of, or perhaps an early run copy of the very first issue of his new magazine, The New Yorker — maybe (likely!) putting some final touches on it. In
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