Interview Of Interest…Liza Donnelly From Both Are True, September 6, 2022, “Comedy Through Cartoons: An Interview With New Yorker Cartoonist Liza Donnelly” Ms. Donnelly’s first drawing appeared in The New Yorker in June of 1982. Visit her website here. ____________________________________________________________ Tom Toro Speaks (in 2023) Mr. Toro, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010, will be featured at
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From The Spill’s Sports Desk: Chatfield’s Update Jason Chatfield (New Yorker cartoonist & New Yorker softball team member) has filed this update from the field: After a thrashing at the hands of Forbes in Riverside Park last week (15 to 1… oof!) The New Yorker Softball team had a victory in Central Park against longtime rivals The Paris Review last
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You’re Kidding, Right? Here’s what the cover of the original edition of James Thurber’s Let Your Mind Alone! looks like. It was published exactly eighty-four years and one day ago (for those not wanting to do the math: September 8, 1937). I think it’s quite a beautiful cover, but then I think almost every Thurber book cover is beautiful. Here
Read more___________________________________________________________________________________ A fun evening at Parsons School of Design back in October of 1984. The occasion was the opening of a group show of New Yorker art. The group photo above and the smaller photos, by T. Dovidio, appeared in The Village Voice. Below is a barely legible key (sorry!) to the artists shown. One person is unknown to me.
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