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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Looking over the Spill‘s Helen Hokinson shelf this morning I came across the “Polite Society” catalog from a 1985 exhibit at the Peoria, Illinois Lakeview Museum Of Arts and Sciences. Altho it’s only 33 pages, the catalog packs in a lot of information and cartoons, some of them previously unpublished. The catalog’s cover itself includes an unpublished drawing
Read moreIt’s tempting to believe that the structure of The New Yorker’s Art Department arrived fully formed in 1924 when Harold Ross, with his wife Jane Grant began pulling together his dream magazine. But of course, such was not the case. What we know for certain is that once the first issue was out, Ross and several of
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