No Piano Is An Island, Sometimes I noticed the below scene early this morning. It made me appreciate our old player piano for the role it plays as a staging ground for various New Yorker things (books, art) that have yet to find their proper place around the house. All of those bound New Yorkers need a better place (they’re
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______________________________________________________________________ Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: Alfred Leete As we lead up to the magazine’s birthday issue, I thought I’d occasionally toss the spotlight onto the cartoons (and cartoonists) appearing in the very first issue (February 21, 1925). The above drawing by Alfred Leete appears on page 14 of that first issue. IDing Mr. Leete took some doing
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A Group: Hokinson, Irvin, Petty, Geo. Price, Steig, Peter Arno, Suares, Alajalov Since we’re in The New Yorker‘s 100th birthday celebration year I thought it would be fun to do a grouping of some of the magazine’s artists (I haven’t done one for awhile). Here’s what you see above: The foundation for the photo is a large poster of George
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Peter Arno, In The New Yorker, 99 Years Ago This Week Looking through the January 23, 1926 (nearly one year old) New Yorker, you might expect it to be chock full of captioned drawings (a caption, for our purposes, is defined as text, enclosed in quotes, said by a character in the drawing). Or, if the issue wasn’t chock full,
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