Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 4: Steinberg; Liza Donnelly Live-Draws The Late Show with Stephen Colbert; Rejected New Yorker Covers by Whittington, Higgins; Video: New York City in the 1920s

Steinberg did ad work?  You bet.  As with William Steig, a Steinberg Part 2 will be posted at some later time.  Warren Bernard,  Executive Director of SPX, is the one responsible for researching & gathering all these images. My thanks to Warren for allowing them to appear here. Here are the dates for these ads:  Emerson, 1948; House & Garden,

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Arno Olio #5: Whiteman’s Burden

From the Dept. of Self-promotion: continuing with this Sunday series leading up the publication of Arno’s biography on April 19th. Today is the fairly obscure title, Whiteman’s Burden, published in 1933 by Viking Press.  Written by the silent film actress, Margaret Livingston Whiteman & writer, Isabel Leighton. The back cover, shown just below the cover scan, nicely explains (using by

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