This week’s republication of a 1936 James Thurber New Yorker cover sent me over the moon (honestly, any Thurber art on the cover would’ve). It also sent me back, via The New Yorker‘s online archive to that year’s covers, and cover artists. Anytime I look at issues of many years gone by I experience a that was then, this is
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Mary Gauerke: The Only Woman Drawing Cartoons For The New Yorker In The 1960s Reading Liza Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, there’s no missing how central women artists were in the magazine’s developing years. Harold Ross, The New Yorker‘s founder and first editor, considered three cartoonists above and beyond all of his other cartoonists (their names
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Personal History…An Important Book I suppose it must say a lot about how important Thurber’s Years With Ross is to me — especially this particular paperback edition — that I can recall the exact moment noticing it, fifty years ago, on a metal display book rack outside a store in Cape May, New Jersey. I forked over the $1.25
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The Tilley Watch Online, July 3-7, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: this cartoonist, Ellis Rosen, Akeem Roberts, Zoe Si, Colin Tom. Daily Shouts: Kendra Allenby. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Former President’s Mug Shot Unearthed” ________________________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The Spill Library This 78 year old
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