Judging by what I’ve noticed over many years of visiting used book stores, The New Yorker 25th Anniversary Album must have been the most popular in the series of their cartoon anthologies. This is the one you’re likely to find if you find any at all. Bonus: it’s easily found online for just a few bucks. The Album sports a
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Just Opened! Library of Congress Exhibit “Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists; Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 24: Otto Soglow’s Pudding Drawings; More Spills: Weyant and Twohy
Library of Congress Exhibit: Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists From the LOC’s press release: Original works by women cartoonists and illustrators are featured in a new exhibition opening at the Library of Congress on Nov. 18. Spanning the late 1800s to the present, “Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists” brings to light remarkable but little-known
Read moreLatest New Yorker Cartoons Dissected; George Booth New Yorker Original Cover Art; Blog of Note… A New Yorker State of Mind: Carolita Johnson’s “This Is The Hand”; Cartoons From The Saturday Evening Post; PR: Blitt, Chast
The Cartoon Companion guys, Max & Simon, are back with their customary dissections of the latest New Yorker cartoons. Read it all here. ______________________________________________________________ George Booth New Yorker Original Cover Art Above is the published Booth cover from February 4, 1974. To see the original art visit Attempted Bloggery. Don’t forget! An exhibit of Mr. Booth’s work just opened yesterday
Read more84 Years Ago: The Sixth New Yorker Album of Cartoons
I love all of the New Yorker Albums that have come out in the magazine’s 92 years, but this one I like maybe just a teeny-tiny bit more than many of the rest (partially due to the fact that it was a gift from Jack Ziegler, back in the days when I was building a set of all the albums,
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