Below’s a photo of two wonderful New Yorker cartoonists taken this morning in Tel Aviv. On the left is Liza Donnelly (no stranger to the Spill) and to the right is Nurit Karlin, who we don’t see enough of here. I think of Ms. Karlin’s work (as I think of Ms. Donnelly’s work) in the Thurber school: a simple line
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81 Years Ago in The New Yorker
Just for the heck of it, I’ve taken a bound volume of The New Yorker off the shelf, and opened it up to the issue dated May 23, 1936. The cover is by Perry Barlow. The cover’s colors are supplied by Mr. Barlow’s wife, Dorothy Hope, as Mr. Barlow was partly color-blind. The festive cover moment doesn’t hint at all
Read more50 Years Ago in The New Yorker
Every so often I like to take a look at a random issue of The New Yorker from well before my time there, or well before my time, period. This issue, of April 29, 1967 is solidly in the former category. The New Yorker was not yet on my mind — I was in fact, just about to begin transitioning
Read moreLatest New Yorker Cartoons Rated; Tom Toro Talks Trump; Messing Around With The New Yorker’s Logo
In the latest installment of The Cartoon Companion: Ed Steed’s fowl: chickens or ducks?…plus Dernavich’s refrigerator, Cotham’s stairway to heaven, and more. _______________________________________________________________________________ Tom Toro has been drawing a lot of Trumps lately. He talks about the experience on the Huffington Post: “New Yorker Cartoonist Explains Why Humor is the Heartbeat of Democracy”
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