First & Last New Yorker Drawing: John Corcoran A decade ago, when I interviewed Lee Lorenz (The New Yorker‘s former Art/Cartoon editor), one of the new-to-me pieces of information I heard was that The New Yorker cartoonist John Corcoran had been supplying a good number of
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Stoliar’s Addams Birthday Salute With Steve Stoliar‘s permission, I’m showing you his Addams Birthday tribute in its entirety (as seen on Facebook): On this day in 1912, Charles Samuel Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. His macabre cartoons festooned copies of “The New Yorker” magazine from 1933 until his death in 1988 and – of course – spawned “The
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56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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Article Of Interest: “Can Joy Of The Arts Bring Us Together?” From The Washington Post, November 10, 2023, “Can Joy Of The Arts Bring Us Together?” — this piece on The Jar, (with Liza Donnelly content). — photo by Eric Korenman ____________________________________________________________________ Book Spotlight Talking with a tableful of New Yorker cartoonists yesterday, Frank Modell’s name
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