Finding Freddie Packard The “spot” drawings you see above were drawn by Freddie Packard, who began working at The New Yorker in 1929 — he passed away in November of 1974, at age 71 (one of his “spot” drawings appeared in the issue of November 4, 1974). The “spots” were just one of the feathers in Mr. Packard’s New Yorker
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Personal History: My First 10 (New Yorker Cartoons) I’ve always loved making lists — a habit that eventually resulted in creating the Spill‘s New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z. Somewhere in this house is a list of the first (vinyl) albums I bought: when I bought them, where I bought them, and how much I paid. When I got into The New
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TV Jibes Via Attempted Bloggery What — you never heard of TV Jibes? Me neither…until yesterday when I saw the entire issue posted on Attempted Bloggery (with scans via Tom Bloom). A special insert included with TV Guide, it featured a dose of non- New Yorker cartoonists (some a mystery, ID-wise), and a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists including, among
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This morning I was thinking about Arnie Levin’s humble 5 1/4″ x 6″ hundred-and-twenty page paperback one-and-only cartoon collection, published in 1980 by Plume: I’ll Skip The Appetizer — I Ate The Flowers. If you don’t have a copy, well, try to find one (I see there aren’t any available on either AbeBooks, Amazon, or Ebay — heavens!). Selfishly I
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