I first met Peter Steiner in 1984 at an impromptu party thrown the night of The New Yorker’s annual anniversary bash (at the Pierre on the corner of 5th Avenue at 59th Street). Following the festivities in the hotel’s grand ballroom, a bunch of cartoonists made their way west to the other side of Central Park to a much smaller
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A Taste of Peter Arno’s College Humor Work
Luckily for us, Attempted Bloggery has gone out of its way to give us a look at a number of obscure Peter Arno drawings. Link here to see some of what Arno contributed to College Humor.
Read moreNew Yorker Cartoonists & Tomato Juice
Attempted Bloggery takes a look at a series of ads for Libby’s Tomato Juice, with art by Peter Arno, Otto Soglow, Syd Hoff, William Steig and James Thurber. Go see!
Read moreThe Lull In Traffic That Saved The New Yorker
In the early 1925, when The New Yorker was just a few months old (its first issue was dated February 21, 1925) its main financial backer, Raoul Fleischmann decided to shut it down. If readership is a measure of success, the magazine was a failure. At 11:00 on a Friday
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