Now That’s A Cover! (And An Essay!) The Complete Book of Covers From The New Yorker never fails to surprise me — it almost seems as if someone has added new covers for me to discover since the last time I paged through. The cover above, by H.O. Hofman (his sixth for the magazine in just eleven months), stood out
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Now That’s A Cover! From H.O. Hofman, who produced thirteen covers for The New Yorker, three drawings*, and an untold number of Spot drawings. The first Hofman cover appeared April 18, 1925 and the last is the one you see here, June 4, 1927. Absolutely love the playfulness of this; it looks like something the artist would’ve done not for
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A New Yorker Slideshow Of Cartoons, 1946-1955 An enjoyable tour of a variety of post-war cartoons. “Cartoon Highlights: 1946-1955” including this beaut from the great Anatol Kovarsky. ________________________________________________________________ Now That’s A Cover! Here’s a joyful early cover from H.O. Hofman, who contributed thirteen covers, three cartoons, and an unknown (to me) number of spot drawings to The New Yorker from
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First And Last: Mary Petty Continuing a once-in-a-blue-moon Spill series, “First and Last” looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker contribution, and their very last. On this Valentine’s Day I thought it would be fun to take a look at the late great Mary Petty’s first and last (her A-Z entry appears below the drawings). Her very first New
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