Video Of Interest: Rea Irvin Here’s a really well done, well researched Rea Irvin-centric video. Watch here. Rea Irvin’s A-Z Entry: Rea Irvin (pictured above. Self portrait above from Meet the Artist) Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972. Irvin was the cover artist for the New Yorker’s first issue, February 21, 1925. He was the magazine’s first art
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A Game (File Under: The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary Celebration) The New Yorker has introduced something they call “Laugh Lines.” It has to do with placing New Yorker cartoons in the correct period they were published. I’ve said it before (will I ever say it again?) — I’m not a puzzles person (other than solving the daily puzzles that are the
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The Tilley Watch Online, December 18-22, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: P.C. Vey, Ali Solomon, Brooke Bourgeois, Ellis Rosen, Drew Panckeri. See the Daily Cartoons here. Daily Shouts: Adam Douglas Thompson. ___________________________________________________________________________ The New Yorker’s 1925 Holiday Cover The New Yorker was just 10 months
Read moreInterview Of Interest…Karl Stevens From Kayfabe, July 22, 2023, this hour long interview with Karl Stevens, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2019. To hear him discuss how he came to be in The New Yorker, go to the 1:06 mark. Mr.
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