Sitting around a dinner table last night with three other New Yorker cartoonists, I mentioned I was working on an interview with a gag writer. Although none of us were gag writers or had ever used the services of gag writers, I was aware of the novelty of the situation: three out of four of us
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New Yorker Artist Anatol Kovarsky Has Died At Age 97
The sad news arrived here this morning that the great New Yorker artist Anatol Kovarsky died this week. He was 97. In his honor I’m re-posting the piece, in now slightly edited form, about Mr. Kovarsky that I wrote three years ago this month. The above photo, by Liza Donnelly, was taken at Mr. Kovarsky’s upper west side apartment, June,
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonists’ Elder Statesman Frank Modell Has Died at 98
Frank Modell, whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of July 20, 1946 died yesterday just a year and small change from his 100th birthday. Frank was a great cartoonist, a raconteur, a
Read moreFave Photo of the Weekend: Two Giants of the New Yorker Cartoon World
Here’s a previously unpublished photograph of two great New Yorker cartoonists: James Stevenson, on the left, and Frank Modell to the right. If you add up (as I have) their combined contributions to the magazine, the number is a whisker shy of an astounding 3,500 cartoons, covers, and written pieces. In 2013, Mr. Stevenson published The Life, Loves and Laughs
Read moreNew Yorker’s Special True Crime Reader of Writing & Cartoons
Just out, The New Yorker Reader: True Crime, an anthology of writing and cartoons with these 36 cartoonists represented: Charles Addams, Peter Arno, Charles Barsotti, Harry Bliss, David Borchart, Michael Crawford, Leo Cullum, Drew Dernavich,
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