Friday Spill: How The New Yorker Will Celebrate Its 100th; Steinberg, Not Steinberg; New York Mag’s “New Yorker’s Anxious 100th Birthday”; Article Of Interest…New Yorker Documentary

  Just posted on newyorker.com, a comprehensive look at all the doings associated with The New Yorker in its centennial year. Link here _______________________________________________________________________   Steinberg, Not Steinberg Looking through the October 8, 1955 New Yorker I came upon a Steinberg ad for Emerson. Some moments later I ran into what I thought, at first glance, was a second Steinberg

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Making a Splash at Esquire

        I found something I was looking for the other day: a log of cartoons I kept in my nascent years of cartooning.  Looking through I realized that the only drawings I sold in the Fall of 1977 — right after breaking into The New Yorker — were to Esquire. During that year Esquire was being retooled

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