Peter Arno In The Society of Illustrators Hall Of Fame Peter Arno, the great, if not the greatest New Yorker cartoonist, is one of the SOI’s 2025 Hall Of Fame inductees. Go here to see more on Arno as well as all the other hall of famers. –above: Arno poses for Time magazine in 1928 Here’s Arno’s A-Z Entry:
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A Ralph Barton Art Supply Ad (With Peter Arno) Back in the Roaring Twenties, Pelican Ink reminded Ralph Barton (and New Yorker readers) that its ink was available in the U.S.A.. The ad below shows a passage from a New Yorker piece on Ralph Barton, Through The Magnifying Glass (by Charles G.Shaw) from the magazine’s November 5, 1927 issue. The
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Here’s to you, New York Public Library, in honor of and thanks for your current exhibit celebrating The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary, A Century of The New Yorker. Below are some of the magazine’s earliest drawings featuring the New York Public Library lions, Patience and Fortitude . Above: a spectacular Barbara Shermund spot drawing from the issue of February 2,
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______________________________________________________________________ New Yorker Cartoonists Cover The 100th Anniversary Issue Cover Above: My colleague, Felipe Galindo (aka Feggo) carried around a copy of the 100th anniversary issue over several days of New Yorker partying and asked cartoonists he ran into to sign the cover. He has generously shared it here. More 100th: From The New York Times Style section, February 26,
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