Driving through my town late yesterday afternoon I saw a small sign stuck in the ground on the side of the road: Library Book Sale Today. So I went over to the library, parked, then walked down the grassy hill to the back door that, as long as I’ve been in this town, opens up to the used books room.
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First & Last New Yorker Drawing: John Corcoran A decade ago, when I interviewed Lee Lorenz (The New Yorker‘s former Art/Cartoon editor), one of the new-to-me pieces of information I heard was that The New Yorker cartoonist John Corcoran had been supplying a good number of
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“Illustration Art: Featuring Highlights From The Collection Of Jules Feiffer” is on for June 20th. The collection contains numerous pieces by such New Yorker contributors as Charles Addams, Mick Stevens, Peter Kuper, Carl Rose, Edward Sorel, Mischa Richter, Leo Cullum, Roz Chast, Lee Lorenz, Bruce Eric Kaplan, Edward Koren, Wallace Morgan, Gahan Wilson, Alan Dunn, and John Held, Jr.. –above:
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Beginnings Of Tilley In An Early Rea Irvin? When comics scholar, Mike Rhode, sent me the below 1917 two-panel drawing by Rea Irvin (more information here on the drawing), my eyes immediately went to the the dancing top-hatted fellow in the second panel. Something very familiar about the waistcoat, the collar, and of course the hat. He’s not Eustace Tilley,
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