On this happy occasion of the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker, it’s instructive to look at the second issue of the magazine, dated February 28, 1925. Was it perhaps too soon for Harold Ross to look back (one week!) critically on his debut issue? From everything I’ve read about Ross, the answer is no. It has been said that
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Attempted Bloggery Begins To Tour The “Drawn From The New Yorker” Exhibit Stephen Nadler, otherwise known as Mr. Attempted Bloggery, has begun to take us on a tour of the Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration exhibit currently up at The Society of Illustrators. Check it out! –Above: Attempted Bloggery‘s photo of a Johan Bull design for The
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I had such a good time writing about some of the books by New Yorker authors on the Spill‘s shelves in yesterday’s post, I thought I’d continue today (still leaving off the “A” authors). As with yesterday’s books, these are only books by New Yorker authors, not books about them (next week, I’ll show some of the books about New
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Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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