Bonus Cartoon Pad Podcast The Pad‘s co-hosts, New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw swipe at each other like kittens in this special, shorter bonus edition of the Pad. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999. The duo announced that their next guest will be Mick Stevens*, who began contributing to The
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George Booth’s drawing that appeared in the first post 9/11 issue of The New Yorker (dated September 24, 2001). It was the only cartoon in that issue. *The only issue of The New Yorker published without cartoons was the issue of August 31, 1946. That issue contained John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” in its entirety.
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Sad news has come this way of the recent passing of Chad Darbyshire (who went by C. Covert Darbyshire). His first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of July 2, 2001. Overall about 30 of his drawings appeared in the magazine in the course of five years. In Warren St. John’s 2004 New York Times article, “Sex With Einstein”
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Personal History: A Note From Willard Scott Back in the early 1980s I happened to stay overnight at a home belonging to a couple with a toddler. In the morning (a time of day I was not accustomed to seeing in those years…I was a night owl) the child appeared next to me (I was asleep on the living room
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