Now That’s A Cover! From one of the great (and possibly unheralded) New Yorker cover artists, Constantin Alajalov, this beauty from the issue of January 7, 1939. Mr. Constantin had approximately one hundred and seventy*(!) covers, and forty-three cartoons, in his thirty-four year run at The New Yorker __________________________________________________________________ *The Complete New Yorker database and The Complete Book Of Covers
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A Group: Hokinson, Irvin, Petty, Geo. Price, Steig, Peter Arno, Suares, Alajalov Since we’re in The New Yorker‘s 100th birthday celebration year I thought it would be fun to do a grouping of some of the magazine’s artists (I haven’t done one for awhile). Here’s what you see above: The foundation for the photo is a large poster of George
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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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Another in a series of looking at the very first and very last New Yorker contributions by its artists. Although he began his thirty-four year New Yorker career as a cartoonist, Constantin Alajalov soon turned to contributing covers. One hundred and seventy of them to be exact. His cartoon contributions numbered forty-three. I’m not quite sure about this,
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