50 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker It’s always fun time traveling through The New Yorker‘s archives. This morning I took a look at the issue of April 28, 1975. The truly wonderful cover is by the late great
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Tag: George Booth
Friday Spill: Caitlin Cass Event Schedule; Sarah Booth Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Caitlin Cass Event Schedule Sorry, I just saw this schedule today, too late for most of the events, but not for the final two. Cailtlin Cass began contributing to The New Yorker in August of 2018. Her most recent book is Suffrage Song (read all about it on her website). ____________________________________________________________________ Sarah Booth Is the Latest Guest On The Cartoon
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Tuesday Spill: George Price…”The Chuckling Champion Of The Washed-Out Man”
George Price: “The Chuckling Champion Of The Washed-Out Man” We expect puffery in advertising, and this ad for the late great George Price’s 1940 cartoon collection, Good Humor Man, doesn’t disappoint (“the year’s biggest and best book of humor”). I like the “chuckling champion” but “washed-out man” seems a bit, well, odd as a selling point. Price’s cartoon world was
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Sunday Spill: “The New Yorker Asks Consideration For Its First Number”; 1975 Was A Very Good Year For New Yorker Cartoons
“The New Yorker Asks Consideration For Its First Number” It is remarkable (to me anyway) how much Harold Ross name-dropped The New Yorker in its debut issue. The “Of All Things” column is not all New Yorker all the time, but close. Below is a sample.
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