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
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Update: 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.
Read moreHappy Birthday, Mr. Roth
Philip Roth, who celebrates his 80th birthday today, was first published in The New Yorker the issue of March 14, 1959, with his story, “Defender of the Faith” causing an immediate stir (see the upcoming PBS American Masters profile “Philip Roth: Unmasked” for, among so many other things, Mr. Roth’s recollection of buying, opening up, reading and rereading his story
Read moreSay It Ain’t So: Bazooka Joe Semi-Retired; Steinberg in a bind; Time travel: cartoons from 1968
From The New York Times, November 29, 2012, “Change Comes to Playground Funny Papers” — this news of the near demise of Bazooka Joe (according to the article, he’ll appear occasionally, but not in the format that lasted nearly six decades). And: Here’s an interesting Bazooka Joe link. From the blog The Museum of Peripheral Art, December
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