You never know what you’ll run into when zipping through old magazines. The other day I picked up several 1977 issues of The National Lampoon, and came upon ads featuring Edward Koren’s fabulous art: And from the Lampoon, the same year, this one featuring art from the great James Stevenson: ____________________________________________________ Edward Koren’s A-Z Entry: Edward Koren (photo above, Fall 2016,
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First & Last New Yorker Drawing… Frank Modell A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last Frank Modell was one of The New Yorker‘s cartoonist anchors during the James Geraghty/Lee Lorenz eras. In his fifty-one years at the magazine he was one of the few artists who contributed over a 1000 drawings
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Weedsy: The “E” In “THE” If you enjoy weedsy, this Spill entry is for you. The other day I was looking at Rea Irvin’s cover art for the very first issue of The New Yorker when I noticed something I’d never noticed before: the lowest arm of the “E” in the word “THE” has a bit of an angle to
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A Meta New Yorker Cartoon By Warren Miller Yesterday, taking a break from drawing, I began poking through a stack of New Yorkers from the late 1960s. An Andre Francois cover on the issue of July 26, 1969 grabbed my attention. I’ve always loved Mr. Francois’s cover work (it’s possible I’m especially fond of it because he had the cover
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