“All Right — Go Ahead and Look at Your Old Pictures!” — Robert Benchley in His Foreword to The Fourth New Yorker Album

The Fourth New Yorker Album of drawings, published in 1931 by Doubleday Doran, was the fourth Album to appear in four years (the first Album was published in 1928).  Four in four years! The cover, originally a New Yorker cover (for the issue of January 4, 1930 — see directly below) is the handiwork of the one-and-only Rea Irvin, the

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Chris Ware’s Observer New Review Cover; Garrett Price’s Election Day New Yorker Cover Sketch

Chris Ware’s Observer New Review Cover From The Guardian, “Grow Up by Chris Ware: Exclusive Cover Art for The Observer New Review” Mr. Ware has contributed nearly two dozen covers to the New Yorker. _______________________________________________________________________________ Garrett Price’s Election Day New Yorker Cover Sketch From Attempted Bloggery, “The Art of the Polling Place: Garrett Price Proposed New Yorker Cover Art” —

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Barbara Shermund on the Cover of…Esquire

When Warren Bernard (of SPX) offered his scanned collection of advertising work by New Yorker cartoonists for use on this site, he included some bonus scans.  Among them were non-advertising work by New Yorker contributors that appeared in Esquire.  Looking through them the other day, Barnbara Shermund’s covers for Esquire popped out on the screen. Here are the four covers

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Color Work From Some Cartoon Greats; Audio: George Booth Talks Tools of the Trade

From Mike Lynch’s site, courtesy of Dick Buchanan, here’s a fun post of some color cartoon work from a variety of magazines. Included, among others, are New Yorker artists, William Steig, Garrett Price, Stan Hunt, William Von Riegen, Gahan Wilson, and Robert Day. See them all here!    _____________________________________________________________________________ Jane Mattimoe has posted two short audio clips of the great

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