Happy 96th Dana Fradon! Very best birthday wishes to Mr. Fradon, our senior New Yorker cartoonist. Above, a powerhouse quartet: three New Yorker cartoonists and their editor. Left to right: Charles Saxon, James Geraghty (the New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 – 1973), Dana Fradon, and Whitney Darrow, Jr. Westport, September, 1982. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Geraghty Herndon). Mr. Fradon’s
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The Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue of May 7, 2018
A Sempe cover! And a bonus: a lengthier Cover Story than of late, with several photos (including one of Sempe and Ed Koren astride bicycles in NYC). Nice. Very nice. On a run through this new issue the number of illustrations and photos seemed even weightier than the past few issues (and that’s really saying something). It’s likely due to
Read moreArticle of Interest: George Booth
From CCHeadliner, March 25, 2018, “MOzark Moments: The Missouri man who draws cats and dogs”— this short piece about the one-and-only George Booth. And speaking of Mr. Booth, his latest book is out May 1st. Here’s the cover: Link here to see some of Mr. Booth’s New Yorker work.
Read moreThe First New Yorker Cartoon Issue…and the Last
From 1997 through 2012, the New Yorker published a “Cartoon Issue”; that there was a special issue wasn’t news — the magazine had started publishing them in its new era of ownership under Conde Nast (purists might argue that the issue of August 31, 1946 was the magazine’s first special issue. Beyond the Goings On About Town section, the entire
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