Ink Spill occasionally takes a look at New Yorker contributors who weren’t cartoonists but whose work at the magazine was so intertwined with cartoons and/or cartoonists that it would be just plain silly not to look at them. Peter De Vries, a New Yorker staffer from 1944 through 1986, fits the bill perfectly. De Vries, who died in 1993, moved
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Who was Russell Maloney and What Did Harold Ross Say About Him?
In May of 1935, New Yorker founder and editor, Harold Ross sent a six word memo to Wolcott Gibbs, at one time the artists so-called hand-holder, i.e., the middleman between the cartoonists and the editors: “Best ideas lately come from Maloney.” “Maloney” was Russell Maloney, a Harvard graduate, who peppered the New Yorker with so many
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Reading the Holly Golightly piece (“Forever a Gamine at Tiffany’s”) in today’s New York Times revived a thought I had lodged in my mental “to do” file a few weeks ago when I had the pleasure of meeting Thurber biographer, Burton Bernstein. Listening to Mr. Bernstein expanding upon a passage from his biography concerning (the nearly blind) Thurber
Read moreHappy Birthday, Eustace!
In honor of the very first issue of The New Yorker, dated February 21, 1925, I’m re-posting a photo I took for “Tilley Over Time“ a piece I contributed to newyorker.com back in February 21, 2008. The cartoonists appearing in that first issue were Alfred Frueh, Gardner Rea, Oscar Howard, Wallace Morgan, Ethel Plummer and, on page 14, an
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