Welcome to Part 2 of Cartoon Bibles. Part one appears at The New Yorker’s website, NewYorker.com. Click here to go there. When I asked my colleagues to name their Cartoon Bible they generously and enthusiastically replied. There were so many responses they all couldn’t fit on the magazine’s blog. So, as a bonus, you can
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It Was Twenty Years Ago Today: Catching Up with…The New Yorker’s Frank Cotham
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today: Catching Up With The New Yorker‘s Frank Cotham I met Frank Cotham just once, in 1997 at a photo shoot organized during the Tina Brown era at the magazine. Forty-one cartoonists showed up to pose for Arnold Newman (the group photo was published in the very first Cartoon Issue of The New Yorker). After
Read moreThurber Is #1
It’s silly to rate cartoonists, but around here, as anyone who follows Ink Spill knows, James Thurber is the #1 New Yorker cartoonist. Thinking about him on the eve of his birthday (he was born in Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894) I stood in front of the Thurber
Read moreRea Irvin’s Last New Yorker Cover
If you read The New Yorker you are very familiar with at least one of his covers: his first one. Mention The New Yorker and one of the images that comes to mind for most people is Eustace Tilley, the
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