Less than a year before Harold Ross published the very first issue of his brainchild, The New Yorker, he briefly edited a well-established humor magazine, Judge. I recently bought a copy of the Ross period Judge to see what I could see (it’s the issue of July 19, 1924). it was odd, but of course not unexpected, to
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The New Yorker before Addams, Steig and Steinberg
With the release this past week of The New Yorker’s Cartoons of the Year 2013 (a relative of a long line of New Yorker Albums seen in the photo) I thought it would be fun to leaf through The New Yorker‘s very first collection, simply called The New Yorker Album. published in
Read moreHappy Birthday, Eustace!
In honor of the very first issue of The New Yorker, dated February 21, 1925, I’m re-posting a photo I took for “Tilley Over Time“ a piece I contributed to newyorker.com back in February 21, 2008. The cartoonists appearing in that first issue were Alfred Frueh, Gardner Rea, Oscar Howard, Wallace Morgan, Ethel Plummer and, on page 14, an
Read moreDanny Shanahan: The Ink Spill Interview
Danny Shanahan, Rhinebeck, NY, January 2013 (Photo by Michael Maslin) This year Danny Shanahan celebrates the 25th anniversary of his first contribution to The New Yorker (the issue of September 19, 1988). He’s in that small group of the magazine’s cartoonists who’ve done just about everything that can be done in The New Yorker, cartoon-wise: spreads, single panel cartoons,
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