Happy 96th Dana Fradon! Very best birthday wishes to Mr. Fradon, our senior New Yorker cartoonist. Above, a powerhouse quartet: three New Yorker cartoonists and their editor. Left to right: Charles Saxon, James Geraghty (the New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 – 1973), Dana Fradon, and Whitney Darrow, Jr. Westport, September, 1982. (Photo courtesy of Sarah Geraghty Herndon). Mr. Fradon’s
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Personal History: First Book
Pardon this little trip down memory lane. In 1975 I printed this first book of mine on a creaky noisy offset press in the basement of the Print Shop at The University of Connecticut in Storrs (the Print Shop, a little paradise on campus, is no more, torn down and replaced — a la Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi”
Read moreRobert Grossman’s Second New Yorker Cartoon & More; Sh!tshow with Flake, Chast
Tributes and obits for Robert Grossman, who passed away last week, are now appearing online. I’ve gathered a few here while also showing you Mr. Grossman’s second New Yorker drawing, published December 14, 1963. It’s interesting (to me) that when Mr. Grossman’s association with the New Yorker is mentioned, it is as an assistant to James Geraghty, then the magazine’s
Read moreRobert Grossman, Illustrator, Cartoonist Extraordinaire: 1940-2018; The Tilley Watch Online
Robert Grossman, Illustrator, Cartoonist Extraordinaire, 1940 – 2018 Robert Grossman a multi-talented artist with an instantly recognizable style, has passed away. Mr. Grossman enjoyed a spectacular career as an illustrator and cartoonist with his work appearing on the cover of numerous major publications. For far more information please go to Drew Friedman’s 2013 piece about Mr. Grossman’s career. In
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