Edward Koren’s Supermarketing Packet The Spill‘s archives are so much richer because of folks who send objets d’New Yorker cartoon art this way. I’m so grateful for the generosity shown the Spill. A recent arrival is this small postcard size advertising packet featuring the late great Edward Koren‘s art. I looked though all the materials within the packet but could
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The Cover The cover before the big day. Are my eyes playing tricks on me or is the line of people (waiting to vote, heading into the sunset, or sunrise?) forming a “B”…could be a B for Blitt, the cover artist, or a B for, well, you know who…). Stepping into The New Yorker time machine (again), I opened up
Read moreThe Cover: The ninth coronavirus-themed cover out of the last ten issues. Here’s a Q&A with cover artist, Christoph Mueller. From the Dept. of Broken Records: sorry, but do New Yorker covers really need titles? This one would be fine standing all by itself. The Cartoonists: Let Us Now Praise George Booth’s Auto Repair Shop Cartoons In a departure for
Read moreThe Cover The new issue’s cover, by Homer Hanuka, is the seventh of the last eight covers that are coronavirus-related. You can read a Q&A with the artist here. The Cartoonists Joe Dator, Sam Gross, Harry Bliss, Farley Katz, Roz Chast, Ellis Rosen, Glen Baxter, P.C. Vey, Emily Flake, Frank Cotham, David Sipress, Liana Finck, Lars Kenseth, Johnny DiNapoli, Carol
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