As we move closer the The New Yorker‘s 100th birthday in February of 2025, I find myself revisiting the magazine’s earliest issues, and earliest cartoon collections, and thinking about “firsts.” The first seventeen cartoon collections were called “Albums. ” The very first Album was published in 1928 (The New Yorker Album) — the last Album (The New Yorker Cartoon Album
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Arno In German Even though my days of feverishly researching Peter Arno are long past, I can’t resist getting hold of any Arno title I’ve never seen before. Somehow, this 1983 German paperback, Peter Arno Cartoons, escaped me until recently (it’s still in Germany at the moment, but heading west to Spill headquarters). Thanks to Google’s translation feature, I believe
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Video Of Interest…Sofia Warren Sofia Warren, who began contributing to The New Yorker in November of 2017, walks us through a drawing in this short video. Visit Sofia Warren’s website here. _____________________________________________________________________ Visiting A Collector and His Collection A few days ago, Liza Donnelly and I drove to my home state of New Jersey to visit with Mr. Attempted Bloggery
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A duo on this week’s Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (Episode #176 for those keeping track): Shannon Wheeler, and Ken Krimstein. above: from top left, clockwise: Mr. Krimstein, CCCP co-host, Paul Nesja, CCCP co-host Nicole Chrolavicius, Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler began contributing to The New Yorker in 2009, and Mr. Krimstein in 2000. Listen to the podcast here. Link here
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