An Algonquin Grouping I thought it would be fun, on this (finally) not scorching hot morning, to gather some Algonquin Round Table related books off the shelves, and bring them together for a group photo along with a couple of original portraits (that’s The New Yorker’s founder and first editor, Harold Ross, as drawn by Garrett Price on the
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We’re in the second week of a double issue, so no new New Yorker (and thus, no new New Yorker cartoons) to peruse this morning. Have you ever wondered when The New Yorker started doubling up issues? The magazine was a weekly from its (famous) first issue, dated February 21, 1925 all the way til December 20, 1993. It managed
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Interview Of Interest…Hilary Campbell “‘The 3pm Dance Break Lives!’ An Interview With Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell” — from Julia Edelman’s Substack. Ms. Campbell began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2017. Visit her website here. ________________________________________________________ Fave Harold Ross News Clipping Of The Week. The below from The
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One of the most persistent myths in The New Yorker cartooniverse is that most New Yorker cartoonists in the early days (whatever that means) did not write their own ideas, that they depended on writers for their supply. The truth is (and I have a feeling this will not be the last time I say this on this site) that
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