(above: foreground: Fritz Foord, Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Case (owner of the Algonquin Hotel) and Dorothy Parker. Standing, left to right: Alan Campbell, St. Clair McKelway, Russell Maloney and James Thurber. An Ink Spill Exclusive: Wolcott Gibbs and Co. in Upcoming Group Portrait There’ve
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Collaborating Cartoonists; Video: Charles Addams
Collaborating cartoonists have been on my mind recently. Who are they, why do they do it? Does it double the fun? A spate of collaborations in The New Yorker within the past year caused me to dig into the subject and ask a few questions. To begin with, here’re a few words on the subject, written sixty years
Read moreJames Stevenson’s Secret Job at The New Yorker
If you pick up a copy of veteran New Yorker cartoonist, cover artist, and Talk of the Town contributor James Stevenson’s latest book, The Life, Loves and Laughs of Frank Modell, you’ll find a section wherein Mr. Stevenson recounts his “summer office boy” job at The New Yorker back in 1947, and mentions as well his beginnings
Read moreUpdate: James Stevenson’s book on Frank Modell Now Available
As promised (and sooner than promised) here’s where one can order James Stevenson’s The Life, Loves and Laughs of Frank Modell.
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