Here’s a favorite obscure Peter Arno cover, executed for Comic Relief: An Omnibus of Modern American Humor, published in 1932, edited by Robert N. Linscott. There are but four drawings in the collection, none by Arno (one’s a Thurber drawing from Is Sex Necessary, his 1929 collaboration with E.B. White; two drawings accompany Corey Ford pieces, and one drawing appears
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Arno Olio #1
From the Department of Self-promotion: Beginning today and on each Sunday leading up to the April 19th publication of Peter Arno’s biography, I’ll post something Arno-related I picked up during these past fifteen years of research and writing. First up, as you can see, is this wonderful cover for the 1939 Yale Junior Prom. Arno attended Yale for just one
Read morePeter Arno…the Galley
From The Dept. of Self Promotion Please forgive this moment of tooting my own galley. It’s an odd and interesting thing finally seeing Arno’s biography closing in on publication. Just another month or so until it’s finished, and then off it goes out into the world (Pub date: April 19th)
Read morePeter Arno Born on This Day in 1904
Celebrating Arno’s birthday this year is especially exciting. As mentioned here recently, his biography will be in bookstores this spring. Until then, here’s a newspaper clipping that nicely bullet points Arno in 1930, five years into his 43 year run at The New Yorker. He was twenty-six at the time, and fast becoming a star, not just in the pages
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