Liza Donnelly On Emily Flake Long time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly continues her series of mini-essays on the cartoonists featured in her upcoming documentary, Women Laughing. Here’s her latest entry: “The Cartoons Of Emily Flake.” Ms. Flake (shown left) began contributing to The New Yorker in 2008. Visit her website here. –Above: An Emily Flake drawing from The New
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99 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker Here’s a quick look at the issue of January 16, 1926 — the second time The New Yorker published in January (any January). The magazine hadn’t yet settled on the Rea Irvin Talk
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Back in the old days, around the Fall of 1992 let’s say, when Tina Brown‘s very first edited issue of The New Yorker hit the newsstand, much was made of the Edward Sorel cover showing a “punker” riding in a horse drawn carriage, often referred to as a Hansom cab. Some suggested it was symbolic: the old New Yorker (symbolized
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90 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker Every so often I like to check in with The New Yorker‘s past (for those who want to make it a regular thing, I highly suggest the terrif website, A New Yorker State of Mind). I rolled the dice today and thought: “Hmmm, 90 years ago is probably interesting.” So back
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