The Disappearing Irvin Clouds If you overlap the covers of the 1980, 1981, and 1982 New Yorker anniversary issues (such as I’ve done for you above) you’ll notice Rea Irvin’s clouds disappear as those years go by. When the magazine shrunk by a half inch in 1981, it lost half its clouds along the top, and by the next year
Read moreArticle Of Interest: Art Young From Yesterday’s Papers, this post, “Of Art Young & young art”. Mr. Young contributed to The New Yorker from 1925 through 1933. Visit The Art Young Gallery here. ______________________________________________________________- Blitt’s Kvetchbook Barry Blitt on the latest kerfuffle from Royalsville. Mr. Blitt has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1993. Visit his website
Read moreSteve Stoliar On Meeting Charles Addams Mr. Stoliar, the author of Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho’s House (BearManor Media, 2015), posted the following birthday tribute to Charles Addams on Facebook. My thanks to Mr. Stoliar for allowing it to appear here. Note: Dick Cavett’s New Yorker Cartoonists episodes were broadcast in March of 1978 (one taping, broken up into
Read moreThe Daily contributing New Yorker cartoonists this week: Christopher Weyant & Ellis Rosen (a dual effort), Pat Byrnes, Eli Dreyfus & Dan Abromowitz (another dual effort), Brendan Loper, and Kendra Allenby. New Yorker cartoonists contributing to Daily Shouts this week: John Klossner, Emily Flake, Dan Abromowitz (with Eugenia Viti), Colin Stokes & Jason Adam Katzenstein (a dual effort).
Read more