It being The New Yorker’s 90th anniversary, how fitting that the cover has been revealed for Thomas Vinciguerra’s Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and The Golden Age of The New Yorker. Quite a crew gathered for a book party at the Algonquin Hotel in 1938: seated, left to right, Fritz Foord (who ran Foord’s Sanitarium in
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The Big Day
In honor of today’s big event, I’ve dragged this drawing out of the archives. I believe it’s the only football drawing of mine ever published in The New Yorker. [pub date: October 16, 2006]
Read moreRegan Arts to Publish Maslin Peter Arno Biography, Mad At Something
I’m pleased to announce that Mad At Something, my biography of the late and very great New Yorker cartoonist, Peter Arno will be published by Regan Arts. Arno is one of the pillars of The New Yorker‘s earliest days, a group that includes Harold Ross, E.B. White, Katharine White, and James Thurber. Ross, the magazine’s founder and first
Read moreChildren’s Book of Interest, Illustrated by Maslin
J. Herman’s Museum Adventure (or How a Dinosaur Met a Spy and Saw NYC) is a brand new book, written by Rider McDowell, and illustrated by yours truly, published by The Pine Brothers Charity Press. Profits from the sale of each book goes towards funding for pediatric cancer research (this is my first foray into children’s books — I
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