50 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker It’s always fun time traveling through The New Yorker‘s archives. This morning I took a look at the issue of April 28, 1975. The truly wonderful cover is by the late great
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Tag: Lee Lorenz
Saturday Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, March 24-28, 2025; Long Lost Lee Lorenz Interview Found
The Tilley Watch Online, March 24-28, 2025 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Becky Barnicoat, Guy Richards Smit, Niall Maher, Adam Douglas Thompson, Peter Kuper, Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy (a duo) Shouts & Murmurs: “Raising Felix: Google Misunderstood” by Julia Wertz Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Sunday In
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Tuesday Spill: George Price…”The Chuckling Champion Of The Washed-Out Man”
George Price: “The Chuckling Champion Of The Washed-Out Man” We expect puffery in advertising, and this ad for the late great George Price’s 1940 cartoon collection, Good Humor Man, doesn’t disappoint (“the year’s biggest and best book of humor”). I like the “chuckling champion” but “washed-out man” seems a bit, well, odd as a selling point. Price’s cartoon world was
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Wednesday Spill: A Steinberg “All In Line” – Lee Lorenz Connection
The just reissued Saul Steinberg 1945 collection, All In Line, caused me to dig out my 1947 paperback copy (shown above) I’ve had for quite a while. Because the paper is brittle and the pages threaten to detach, I don’t go to it very often. It took this 2024 edition to remind me — gadzooks! — that I do not
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