TV Jibes Via Attempted Bloggery What — you never heard of TV Jibes? Me neither…until yesterday when I saw the entire issue posted on Attempted Bloggery (with scans via Tom Bloom). A special insert included with TV Guide, it featured a dose of non- New Yorker cartoonists (some a mystery, ID-wise), and a bunch of New Yorker cartoonists including, among
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The Issue: This is the “Power Issue,” appropriately enough for an issue dated the day before the election. The issue includes a star contributor: Barack Obama, The 44th President of The United States. The Cover: Richard McGuire’s cover design reminds me a little of the 1960s television show, The Time Tunnel. You can read a Q&A with Mr. McGuire here
Read moreIt’s taken a while to get to Richard Taylor’s advertising work, shown here in Part 14 of this series brought to you by collector and Executive Director of SPX, Warren Bernard. Mr. Taylor’s work was seemingly everywhere during his heyday; he was published approximately 400 times in The New Yorker from 1935 through 1967, he illustrated a truckload of books,
Read moreHere’s a look at Garden State born New Yorker contributors (including its current editor) as well as New Yorker contributors (all cartoonists) not Jersey born, but currently living there. Also included: New Yorker contributors who, though not native-born, grew up there and/or lived there for a good while. If anyone out there has others I’ve missed (and I’m sure I
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