Some Long Ago Cartoonist Covers I recently went on a little online adventure searching for Corey Ford covers by New Yorker artists. Along the way I also found a cover on a non-Ford title. I’m showing it here because it’s so striking. The John Riddell Murder Case by John Riddell. 1930. Cover artist: Miguel Covarrubias The Gazelle’s Ears by Corey
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The New Yorker’s First New Year’s Cover It seems only right that the New Yorker began a new year with a cover by Rea Irvin, and that Irvin would include Eustace Tilley (appearing, cuckoo clock-like at the stroke of midnight). It was Irvin’s 9th cover in approximately ten months. Tilley made two other appearances in the same issue (not counting
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Eustace Tilley Cufflinks Of Interest From Attempted Bloggery, September 23, 2025, “Eustace Tilley New Yorker Cuffllnks” Stephen Nadler, the fellow behind the Attempted Bloggery curtain, takes a look at these interesting, and somewhat mysterious pieces (the set above are part of the Spill archives). “Mysterious” because there seems to be, at the moment, only one other known pair (offered and
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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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