This stunning Ilonka Karasz cover graced the New Yorker‘s first fourth of July issue. Ms. Karasz contributed a remarkable 187 covers to the magazine; her first was on the 7th issue, April 4, 1925, her last appeared on the issue of October 22, 1973. Of note within the issue: this Helen Hokinson drawing appearing on the Talk of The Town’s
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Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 3: Barbara Shermund
We continue with the Spill’s special presentation of Warren Bernard’s collection of ads by New Yorker cartoonists. My thanks to Mr. Bernard for all the elbow work collecting these. Today we see four Barbara Shermund ads. Ms. Shermund is surely one of the most important (and sadly, overlooked) early contributors to the magazine. To read a whole lot more about
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