Another in a series of Spill posts showing a particular artist’s very first published New Yorker drawing and their very last Ethel Plummer’s name may not be familiar to most, but of the over 700 New Yorker artists that have contributed to the magazine in its 93 years, she holds the distinction of appearing in The New Yorker‘s very first
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— This piece was originally posted in December of 2013. It has been updated and expanded. When I moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1976, just out of college, I was on a mission to be published by The New Yorker. Little did I know, when I rented an apartment at 113 West
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Very Funny Ladies…Indexing Cartoonists are often asked which comes first: the pictures or the words. My answer has always been (for me): I dunno. But lately, as we near Fall and the publication of an updated edition of Liza Donnelly’s 2006 Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons, words seem, if not first, then
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It being The New Yorker‘s 96th anniversary week, I thought it would be fun to take a quick look at the cartoonist line-up in the magazine’s very first issue, dated February 21, 1925. There weren’t many cartoonists in the issue, but then again the issue was only 31 pages. I’m showing the artists in order of their work’s appearance, along
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