Drew Dernavich’s 5th Cartoon Caption Contest Pod Appearance Mr. Dernavich, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2002 joins pod hosts, Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, and Paul Nesja for a record 5th appearance. Listen to it here. Drew Dernavich’s website.
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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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