Pub Day For At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker is out today, after eight years in the making, including thousands of zoom meetings (kidding about the thousands of zoom meetings. I think there were only 241). It’s published by the good folks at Clarkson Potter, who allowed the photographer, Alen
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Just In: At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker Was very pleased to find this advance copy in the mail of At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker (it’ll be out this November, from Clarkson-Potter). Alen MacWeeney has photographed over 50 of
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Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A 1951 NYU Parody Issue Of The New Yorker What began with The New Yorker parodying itself (an in-office publication via Rea Irvin featuring a silhouette of Harold Ross in Eustace Tilley’s place, looking at Alexander Woollcott instead of a butterfly) carried on through the decades. (The Spill has a copy of Lois Long‘s
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Last week, there was an impromptu visit to the Spill’s headquarters by a quartet of New Yorker cartoonists. Not too long ago I would’ve led them to what my wife and I call the piano room (because there’s a piano in the room) where they would’ve seen four walls covered with framed cartoons by New Yorker artists (a sample directly below).
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