The Who, What, Where, Why, And When Of Cartoons As anyone knows who comes to this site on a regular basis, it’s no surprise that I find The New Yorker cartoon world ever-present, ever-inspiring, and yeah, even ever-mysterious. The who, what, where, why, and when of The New Yorker
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Here’s a volume I spent a lot of time with some years back when writing Peter Arno’s biography (Brendan Gill’s Arno obit is in the issue of March 9th). Arno was, at the time of his death, still fully engaged with the magazine; his New Yorker contract for the coming year awaited his signature; he had finished off what would
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The Ink Spill Interview: Edward Koren Of the nearly 700 artists who have contributed cartoons to The New Yorker in its 97 years, Edward Koren is among the half-dozen who have contributed 60 years or more. 60 years of cartoons and covers! That is a massive amount of commitment, resilience, artistry,
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Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the
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