“So this is what Manhattan looked like in the tipsy yesterday of Prohibition” — Ben Brantley, The New York Times The New Yorkers was a hit when it opened in December of 1930 (done in by the Depression, it closed after 168 performances) and here it is back in 2017, albeit in altered form, heralded one more time. Too bad
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“The Place Was Especially A Mess After The Weekly Art Meetings”
… “The artists, who waited for the verdicts, scrambled for desk space where they could retouch their cartoons and spots according to what Wylie, or Katharine Angell, told them what Ross wanted.”* — So said New Yorker editor and writer Rogers Whitaker to Thurber biographer, Harrison Kinney. He was describing a wonderfully fun and exciting time and
Read moreVideo of Interest: John Updike & New Yorker Cartoons; From Ink Spill’s Archives: Art of The New Yorker Ephemera
The late John Updike (he died in 2009) wrote almost as much about the magazine’s cartoons and cartoonists as any New Yorker contributor outside of the Art/Cartoon Department [see below]. Here we have a chance to see him for five and-a-half minutes, up close with some of the magazine’s most iconic drawings, including James Thurber’s Seal in the Bedroom,
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonist Extraordinaire, James Stevenson, Has Died
Ink Spill has learned this morning that James Stevenson, who contributed to The New Yorker for nearly half a century and was the very definition of a New Yorker cartoonist, has died. The news was conveyed by his wife, Josephine Merck. Photo: James Stevenson in the 1960s Mr. Stevenson, born in New York City in 1929, found
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