There’s Gold In These Volumes I’ve written in the past about the joys of looking through bound volumes of The New Yorker, and why seeing an original issue right before your eyes is preferable to seeing the magazine on a screen. The feel of the pages, the smell (yes, the smell!) of a seventy or eighty year old magazine —
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The passing of Jeopardy! host, Alex Trebek over this past tumultuous weekend caused me to seek the search box on The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site. I was curious as to how many Jeopardy! drawings had appeared in the magazine. Surprisingly, fewer than a dozen matches came up that specifically addressed the show: Roz Chast’s Insomnia Jeopardy published December 8,
Read more__________________________________________________________________________________ Here’s a fun 6 minute video of Bob Eckstein’s studio. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007. He’s authored and edited an number of books, most recently the Ultimate Cartoon Book series for Princeton Architectural Press. ____________________________________________________________________________ An end of week listing of New Yorker artists who’ve contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brendan Loper
Read moreThere are two fave Thurber biographies in this house: Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography, and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life And Times. I like to think of them as perfect bookends to any Thurber collection. Bernstein’s (left), at 532 pages is the quick read; Kinney’s is 1,238. I think of the two books as I think of my two
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