Collaborating cartoonists have been on my mind recently. Who are they, why do they do it? Does it double the fun? A spate of collaborations in The New Yorker within the past year caused me to dig into the subject and ask a few questions. To begin with, here’re a few words on the subject, written sixty years
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Peter Arno, seriously.
Of the thirty-six Peter Arno drawings that appeared in The New Yorker in 1939, one should be noted as entirely different from what the readership had come to expect from his pen. The captionless drawing of October 7th, described in The New Yorker’s records as: “Air Squadron flying over a cemetery in France” is a somber piece unlike anything
Read moreJames Stevenson’s Secret Job at The New Yorker
If you pick up a copy of veteran New Yorker cartoonist, cover artist, and Talk of the Town contributor James Stevenson’s latest book, The Life, Loves and Laughs of Frank Modell, you’ll find a section wherein Mr. Stevenson recounts his “summer office boy” job at The New Yorker back in 1947, and mentions as well his beginnings
Read moreScudder Middleton, New Yorker Cartoonists Hand-Holder and More
Does the name Scudder Middleton mean anything to you? It meant a little something to me, but no so much…until recently when I decided to look a little deeper into his association with The New Yorker’s art department. I’d seen his name on memos while sifting through the magazine’s archives in The New York Public
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