Event Of Interest: Akeem Roberts At The Brooklyn Public Library From The Brooklyn Public Library website, this notice of a February 24, 2026 appearance by Akeem Roberts, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2019 (the issue of July 8th). Visit his website here. Note: Mr . Roberts is one of 52 New Yorker artists profiled in the book
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A New Yorker State Of Mind On The Issue Of November 2, 1935 Need some fun post-Thanksgiving, post- Black Friday reading? Look no further than this latest entry from A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine. — Cover by Constantin Alajalov The Spill‘s Alajalov A-Z Entry: Mr. Alajalov’s
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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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