Mary Gauerke: The Only Woman Drawing Cartoons For The New Yorker In The 1960s Reading Liza Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, there’s no missing how central women artists were in the magazine’s developing years. Harold Ross, The New Yorker‘s founder and first editor, considered three cartoonists above and beyond all of his other cartoonists (their names
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Personal History: Cape May’s “Pink House” On this humid morning I decided to pinch a fan from my wife’s studio. I don’t think she’ll mind as she’s twenty-eight hundred miles away in Cal-i-forn-i-a. Heading out of her studio, fan in hand, I took a detour into a narrow adjacent room which is home to some of our New Yorker odds
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Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much” came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the
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48 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker This being the second week of a double issue week, there’s no new magazine art to study this rainy morn. As regular visitors to the Spill know, I occasionally do some time-traveling on these off-weeks, and look at an issue (usually selected at random) from the past. I wanted some small
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