A Spill fave blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, takes a good long look at the contents of the issue of September 21, 1935. See it here! Above: the cover is by the late great Ilonka Karasz Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick, New
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Now That’s A Cover! Ilonka Karasz again returns to the Spill’s cover series not long after appearing in the Spring. It might seem I’m in a Karasz phase, but the truth of it is I don’t look for any particular artist’s work as I go through the New Yorker‘s covers (often using The Complete Book Of Covers From The New
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It didn’t take long for The New Yorker to have its first July 4th cover (by that I mean, an issue dated July 4th). Ilonka Karasz delivered this Coney Island-centric beauty — her fourth New Yorker cover — when the magazine was less than six months old. Ilonka Karasz (photo above by Nickolas Muray) Born, Budapest, July 13, 1893. Died, Warwick,
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As we’re in the second week of a double issue, there’s no new issue to look at. Darn. Instead, let’s take a look at an issue from this week, seventy-five years ago. Cover by Ilonka Karasz: As much as I like the cartoons in this issue, it’s the Spot drawings that really caught my eye. So here are just a
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