The After-Shave Club Who knew! Once upon a time, long ago, there was an after-shave club (at least in the minds of ad folks). Here’s an ad showing a drawing by New Yorker artist and club member, Alajalov. As you see in the copy, James Thurber lent his name to Aqua Velva’s campaign. One didn’t need to do anything but
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Al Frueh’s Thurber-like Drawing Al Frueh, mentioned here yesterday (his was the first cartoon in the very first issue of The New Yorker) provided the below drawing in the April 9, 1960 issue of the magazine (“The Thurber Carnival” had opened the previous February). Mr. Frueh did a great job of staying true to his own style while tipping his
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As we move closer the The New Yorker‘s 100th birthday in February of 2025, I find myself revisiting the magazine’s earliest issues, and earliest cartoon collections, and thinking about “firsts.” The first seventeen cartoon collections were called “Albums. ” The very first Album was published in 1928 (The New Yorker Album) — the last Album (The New Yorker Cartoon Album
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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 The Cover: Subterranean Santa The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Seventeen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (Ivan Ehlers has a “Sketchpad”). No newbies, and no duos, that we know of. The longest active cartoonist contributor in this issue is Roz Chast. This week’s cartoons.
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