A Saxon Santa Cover I usually associate Charles Saxon covers with The New Yorker (and no wonder — he had 93 covers), but here’s a terrif TV Guide cover from the issue of December 24-30, 1977 featuring Saxon’s art. Saxon’s A-Z entry: Charles Saxon (self portrait from Best Cartoons of the Year 1947) Born in Brooklyn, Nov 13, 1920,
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Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title I don’t have a good sense of where most of my drawings come from. Mostly, they just show up, and I put ’em down on cheap paper. The above drawing does have a small bit of a past — at least the caption does. My mother was a fan of Frank Sinatra. While
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Many many years ago, before I began holding onto every New Yorker-centric thing that came my way, I gave my first edition copy of Thurber’s 1939 classic, The Last Flower to a friend (the friend who showed me the very first Thurber drawing I’d ever seen). Over the years I stayed away from re-acquiring a first edition (I did acquire
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Sad news has come this way of the recent passing of Chad Darbyshire (who went by C. Covert Darbyshire). His first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of July 2, 2001. Overall about 30 of his drawings appeared in the magazine in the course of five years. In Warren St. John’s 2004 New York Times article, “Sex With Einstein”
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