A Gibson & A Steig New Year’s Cartoon From Attempted Bloggery, December 30, 2020,“Mary Gibson: New Year Spoilsport”— two New Year’s cartoons: Mary Gibson’s in The Saturday Evening Post (the clipping via Dick Buchanan’s Famous Files) in October of ’53, the other is William Steig’s New Yorker classic that appeared in December of ’55. Not a whole lot is known
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An end of week listing of New Yorker artists contributing to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Ellis Rosen, Paul Noth, Tim Hamilton, Peter Kuper, Adam Douglas Thompson Daily Shouts: Ali Fitzgerald _________________________________________________________ A Post-Thanksgiving Turkey Continuing with the third in a series of Thanksgiving cartoons from the archive, here’s one of mine from The New Yorker issue of December 8,
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The passing of Jeopardy! host, Alex Trebek over this past tumultuous weekend caused me to seek the search box on The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site. I was curious as to how many Jeopardy! drawings had appeared in the magazine. Surprisingly, fewer than a dozen matches came up that specifically addressed the show: Roz Chast’s Insomnia Jeopardy published December 8,
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Fall Covers: Despite the pandemic, mother nature continues on doing her thing. There’s something reassuring about that (some of the best New Yorker covers have appeared this time of year). Back in 1984 the magazine’s seasonal covers inspired a gallery show and an accompanying book, Seasons At The New Yorker. Besides J.C. Suares’s September 23, 1974 cover that appears on
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