Frank Modell & Stan Hunt Help Sell Cars It’s not unusual for New Yorker cartoonists work to appear in ads (does the name Charles Saxon ring a bell?) but what is unusual — at least I’ve never seen this before — is just sticking a cartoon over an ad (yes, like a stickie note) as we see in the two
Read moreThe Cover: a sign o’ the times graduation piece by Anita Kunz. This is the tenth out the last eleven covers that is coronavirus-related. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: An even dozen cartoons & cartoonists, with a thirteenth, Ed Steed, as this week’s Spot drawing artist. The newbie in the crowd, Oren Bernstein, is the sixth new New Yorker cartoonist of
Read moreThe Cover: A heart-strings reflection of the issue’s Health Issue theme (but it’s tempting to believe we’d see a cover along these lines even if it wasn’t the Health Issue). The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: An umbrella observation from the get-go: the abundance of color pieces (one by Roz Chast, one by Emily Flake, and one by Liana Finck) in this
Read moreLast week at a cartoonists lunch (noted here on the Spill), my colleagues Robert Leighton and John O’Brien brought up the subject of Jerry McCanna and his New Yorker cartoon calendars. When they told me that Jerry had recently passed away I asked Robert and John if they would care to write a piece about him. What follows is Robert
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