Alan Dunn’s 1,981st New Yorker Drawing In my earliest days at The New Yorker it seemed to be a gospel truth that Alan Dunn was the most prolific New Yorker artist. I’ve long been fascinated by how such facts are established as fact. I suppose it could be as simple as someone offhandedly saying to a colleague in an elevator one
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Online Event Of Interest With Bishakh Som Bishakh Som, who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2018 will be speaking this Thursday in an online event hosted by the Heong Gallery. All the info here. From the event text re: Apsara Engine and Spellbound: Apsara Engine won the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel as well as the
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Personal History: Getting In As mentioned here a few times, I’ve been writing a memoir of my time at The New Yorker (my time continues there, as does the writing). Someone in the publishing biz recently told me that a book in progress is sometimes referred to as “still baking” — I like that. In the midst of this memoir-ing
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This morning I was standing in front of the Spill’s wall of cartoon books, looking through some Richard Taylor illustrated books (that’s another story) when my eyes drifted up to the shelf lined with “extra” Thurber books (later editions, duplicate copies, copies sans dust jackets, paperbacks). I’d long ago placed The New Yorker promotional booklet you see below facing out,
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