Celebrating The New Yorker’s Centennial: The Headings From The First Issue Here, in order of their appearance in The New Yorker‘s debut issue are all of the column headings. The designer/artist was the one-and-only Rea Irvin. Some of the names have survived 100 years, but none of the designs. Of All Thing’s skyline with Eustace Tilley and the owl soon
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Friday Spill: Latest New Yorker Centennial Events: New Yorker On Jeopardy…Two Cartoonists In Conversation At The Society Of Illustrators
New Yorker’s 100th Events continue… Two of the latest events connected with The New Yorker’s ongoing centennial celebration… The New Yorker On Jeopardy The New Yorker‘s 100th Anniversary Celebration extended this week to the television gameshow Jeopardy!, where editor David Remnick served up the answers that included an Addams family character (that’s Mr. Addams on
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Thurber Thursday: “The Editors Wish Gratefully To Thank the Artists For All They Have Been Through…”
In a year celebrating a centennial, it’s natural to look back. And so off we go through the time tunnel to 1932 and to the Fifth New Yorker Album of drawings (or, cartoons, if you prefer). Why the Fifth? Because it’s Thurber Thursday, and the Fifth’s Foreword was written by James Thurber. I enjoy re-reading The New Yorker Album Forewords.
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Wednesday Spill: Video Of Interest: New Yorker Editor David Remnick On The Daily Show; Great Book…”The Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker: 1925-1989″
The New Yorker’s 100th Celebration: Video Of Interest… David Remnick On The Daily Show Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on The Daily Show, talking New Yorker history and current politics with Jon Stewart. Nice seeing Eustace Tilley there too! _____________________________________________________________________________ Great Book: The Complete Book Of Covers From The New Yorker: 1925-1989 Back in the late 1980s, when
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