Happy 90th, Lee Lorenz! All best wishes to the great New Yorker cartoonist & editor Lee Lorenz on turning 90. Mr. Lorenz was the steward for (imho) The New Yorker‘s Second Golden Age, a period that saw the arrival of so many greats. I’m listing all of the artists Mr. Lorenz brought in so as not to leave anyone out.
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Back in 1981 when the U.S. edition of J.J. Sempe’s Displays Of Affection was published, The New Yorker artist, Edward Koren, provided, as you see right there on the cover above, the translation and introduction. The Sempe-Koren connection extended beyond the writing of the intro to the book, as Koren was both friend and link to Sempe’s grand entrance
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Saddened to learn of the passing of the great J.J. Sempe, who began contributing drawings and covers (mostly covers) to The New Yorker in 1978. Here’s a link to his New York Times obit. Mr. Sempe’s work was introduced to The New Yorker’s then art editor Lee Lorenz via Edward Koren. Mr. Sempe’s New Yorker covers often featured a small
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Personal History…5 EZ Steps To The New Yorker When I moved to Manhattan in 1977, the idea was that being close to The New Yorker’s offices might somehow help me (my work) get into The New Yorker. After getting over the jitters about actually going into the offices, I took that first big step and learned that going in didn’t
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