Thurber fans will certainly enjoy the cover and content of the upcoming Big New Yorker Book of Dogs now posted online at your favorite mega-bookseller site. The 416 page hardcover book is due October 30, 2012 (Random House). The online description reads, in part: This copious collection, beautifully illustrated in full color, features articles, fiction, humor, poems, cartoons, cover
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New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor on Humor, Kitties and Seinfeld; Slate: “Why Does The New Yorker Publish So Many Pieces About The New Yorker?
From New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Robert Mankoff’s blog on newyorker.com, July 11, 2012, “I Liked the Kitty” From Slate, July 12, 2012, this post by Aisha Harris and David Haglund, “Why Does The New Yorker Publish So Many Pieces About The New Yorker?”
Read moreIn Good Company: a look at the cartoons in Al Ross’s New Yorker debut issue
The news that Al Ross passed away last week got me to thinking about his start at The New Yorker, way way back in the issue of November 27, 1937, when he was twenty-five years old. This morning I went to our cabinet full of bound New Yorkers, brought out the volume from late 1937 and began paging through
Read moreThe New Yorker’s Art Meeting: A Potted History
It’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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