The latest addition to the Spill library is perhaps the rarest. Aces! — All Aces! produced in 1926, when The New Yorker was not yet two years old, is yet another hard cover book put out by the magazine’s business department, and the earliest I know of (Corey Ford’s The Making Of A Magazine, also produced in 1926, had its
Read moreThe Norman Rockwell Museum continues its zoomed panel discussions next Tuesday, August 4th with Liza Donnelly and myself. Link here for all the info. Liza Donnelly’s first New Yorker cartoon appeared in 1982. A retrospective of her work, Comic Relief is currently on exhibit at The Norman Rockwell Museum. Link here for my bio. ____________________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Bonus Cartoon is
Read moreHere’s an interesting read, published in 1967 by Little, Brown. Corey Ford’s The Time Of Laughter: A Sentimental Chronicle of the Twenties — The Humor and the Humorists. Ford will be forever remembered (I hope!) as the fellow who gave name to the New Yorker‘s top hatted butterfly inspecting dandy, Eustace Tilley. Here’s Ford talking about naming Tilley: “The New
Read moreMention The New Yorker and it’s highly likely the image, or one of the first images, that pops into one’s mind is of Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley, the magazine’s mascot. He appeared on the inaugural issue of the magazine dated February 21, 1925, and on every anniversary issue until Tina Brown broke the streak in 1994 by publishing R. Crumb’s
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