Alan Dunn’s New Yorker War Cartoons Cover Alan Dunn might be best remembered for his signature densely styled charcoal and grease pencil drawings that appeared for nearly a half-century in the New Yorker, from 1926 through 1974. Or he might be remembered as the most prolific New Yorker artist with the most published cartoons until William Steig overtook him
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Podcast Of Interest: Liza Donnelly From Drawing Inspiration, April 5, 2021, this hour plus podcast featuring Ms. Donnelly. Here’s Donnelly’s Spill A-Z entry: Liza Donnelly Born, Washington, D.C. New Yorker work: June 21, 1982 – Key book: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (Prometheus, 2005). Edited: Sex & Sensibility: Ten Women Examine the Lunacy
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An Addams Album Cover It never ceases to amaze what pops up online. Yesterday it was this 1957 Dean Gitter album with Charles Addams cover art. _____________________________________________________________________ Harold Ross On Gluyas Williams I opened a bound volume of The Atlantic Monthly the other day wanting to re-read Charles Morton’s three part article that charts his brief “try for The New
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Tom Bloom, illustrator, fun stuff collector, and good friend of this site, has passed along a scan of a Peter Arno piece I’d not seen before. With his permission, I’m sharing it with you. And, a bonus scan from Mr. Bloom, this fab UK Gluyas Williams cover, also not seen (by me) until it showed up yesterday. ________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily
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