Book Launch For Sorel’s “Profusely Illustrated” Lotsa laffs at last night’s book launch for Edward Sorel’s Profusely Illustrated (published by Knopf) at the Century Association, just a skip and a jump from The New Yorker‘s old offices at 25 West 43rd Street. This cartoonist, accompanied by New Yorker colleagues Liza Donnelly and John Cuneo, dipped into the old building to
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Tilting The Cartoonists: Sixteen cartoons, sixteen cartoonists. No newbies, no duos (that we know of). Sam Gross, the magazine’s 5th longest active cartoonist contributor (his first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of August 23, 1969)
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Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017. The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was
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You’re Kidding, Right? Here’s what the cover of the original edition of James Thurber’s Let Your Mind Alone! looks like. It was published exactly eighty-four years and one day ago (for those not wanting to do the math: September 8, 1937). I think it’s quite a beautiful cover, but then I think almost every Thurber book cover is beautiful. Here
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