From BBC News Magazine, July 19, 2013, “A Point of View: Bert, Ernie and the power of cartoons” And… From New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff’s newyorker.com blog, here’s part 2 of his look into favorite cartoons. This time Mr. Mankoff begins to roll
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In the House: Curtain Calls of 1926
This wonderful book arrived in today’s mail. I was very lucky to find it for the price of a couple of slices of pizza (with toppings). According to an online bookseller’s listing there were 40 copies produced. It’s a small book, 8 1/2″ high, 6″ wide. I’d only seen one before, years ago in a museum case. If I’ve had
Read morePeter Steiner on the 20th Anniversary of “On The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A Dog.”
Peter Steiner On The 20th Anniversary Of “On The Internet, Nobody Knows You’re A Dog” On this day twenty years ago, Peter Steiner’s “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” was published in The New Yorker. The cartoon went on to become the most reprinted New Yorker cartoon in modern times, and according to The New Yorker’s Cartoon
Read moreAuthor’s Progress Report: Thomas Vinciguerra on his Cast of Characters: Wolcott Gibbs, E.B. White, James Thurber, and the Golden Age of the New Yorker
(above: foreground: Fritz Foord, Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Case (owner of the Algonquin Hotel) and Dorothy Parker. Standing, left to right: Alan Campbell, St. Clair McKelway, Russell Maloney and James Thurber. An Ink Spill Exclusive: Wolcott Gibbs and Co. in Upcoming Group Portrait There’ve
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