In a year celebrating a centennial, it’s natural to look back. And so off we go through the time tunnel to 1932 and to the Fifth New Yorker Album of drawings (or, cartoons, if you prefer). Why the Fifth? Because it’s Thurber Thursday, and the Fifth’s Foreword was written by James Thurber. I enjoy re-reading The New Yorker Album Forewords.
Read moreAt The Oscars! Liza Donnelly Live-Draws From the Red Carpet Back for her third trip to the Academy Awards, Liza Donnelly, is live-drawing for CBS News (she’s their Resident Cartoonist). You can follow her work tonight from the Red Carpet on Instagram (lizadonnelly), Twitter (@lizadonnelly), etc., etc. ________________________________________________ “That Special Kind of Madness”: The Seventh New Yorker Album The Seventh
Read moreOf all the duties Wolcott Gibbs attended to during his thirty-one years at The New Yorker (and his duties were many: editor, writer, theater critic), his relationship to the magazine’s cartoonists (or “artists” as the magazine calls them) is probably the least examined. When Gibbs began at The New Yorker, working under Katharine Angell (later, after marrying E.B. White,
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