Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: 25 West 45th Street Here’s a contemporary photo of 25 West 45th Street, where The New Yorker‘s first offices were located (the building was, in the 1920s, owned by the Fleischmann family. Raoul Fleischmann, who put up the lion’s share of cash to fund the new magazine, offered office space to Harold Ross).
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Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…Maggie Larson And The Sturgeon King; Attempted Bloggery’s Stephen Nadler Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; New Books On The Horizon… John Cuneo…Asher Perlman; New Yorker’s 100th Celebration…Wallace Morgan
Fave Photo OF The Week: Maggie Larson And The Sturgeon King Maggie Larson, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, posted this photo on social media the other day. We see Ms. Larson standing with The Sturgeon King himself. Ms. Larson is holding an original New Yorker drawing that originally appeared in the December 24, 2024 issue. Visit Maggie
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Tuesday Spill: A Group…Helen Hokinson, Rea Irvin, Mary Petty, George Price, William Steig, Peter Arno, Jean-Claude Suares, Alajalov; Jules Feiffer…1929-2025
A Group: Hokinson, Irvin, Petty, Geo. Price, Steig, Peter Arno, Suares, Alajalov Since we’re in The New Yorker‘s 100th birthday celebration year I thought it would be fun to do a grouping of some of the magazine’s artists (I haven’t done one for awhile). Here’s what you see above: The foundation for the photo is a large poster of George
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Monday Spill: Video Of Interest…Peter Steiner Draws!; Latest Additions To The Spill Library…A German Arno Collection & A Giant Stack Of Cartoonist Profiles; An Ad For A Great Collection By Gluyas Williams — “The Genial Gentle Wit”
We’re halfway through two weeks covered by the New Yorker double issue of December 26th, 2024 & January 6th, 2025. The regular Monday Tilley Watch will return next Monday, January 6, 2025. Video Of Interest…Peter Steiner Draws! Here’s a fun short video the terrif Peter Steiner posted on social media. Mr. Steiner began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979.
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