From the Department of Self-Promotion: this piece by Brenda Cronin in The Wall Street Journal, “A Homage to New Yorker Cartoonist Peter Arno”
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A New Weekly Coming
Today’s the day, ninety years ago to be exact, when the new weekly mentioned above turned up on newsstands across Manhattan. The cover, by Rea Irvin, was surprising. It featured a drawing of an as yet unnamed gentleman from an earlier time. How odd, how very strange. Who is that fellow, and why did The New Yorker’s founder and first
Read moreRegan Arts to Publish Maslin Peter Arno Biography, Mad At Something
I’m pleased to announce that Mad At Something, my biography of the late and very great New Yorker cartoonist, Peter Arno will be published by Regan Arts. Arno is one of the pillars of The New Yorker‘s earliest days, a group that includes Harold Ross, E.B. White, Katharine White, and James Thurber. Ross, the magazine’s founder and first
Read moreHarold Ross’s Caption Contest
Less than a year before Harold Ross published the very first issue of his brainchild, The New Yorker, he briefly edited a well-established humor magazine, Judge. I recently bought a copy of the Ross period Judge to see what I could see (it’s the issue of July 19, 1924). it was odd, but of course not unexpected, to
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