Video Of Interest: Pete Beard’s “New Yorker Covers 1925-1939” Here’s a ten minute survey of early New Yorker covers and a select few of the magazine’s earliest cover artists. It’s part of a now long running series by Pete Beard, “Unsung Heroes Of Illustration.” This is a ten minute look at some of the magazine’s early cover art and artists.
Read moreThurber Thursday Above are all the (specifically) Thurber reference books in the Spill cartoon library. Thurber of course makes appearances in numerous New Yorker-centric books, such as Ross And The New Yorker; Genius In Disguise; Ross, The New Yorker & Me, etc., etc.), but these are the core group examining Thurber’s life. Of the above, I use three on a
Read more… “The artists, who waited for the verdicts, scrambled for desk space where they could retouch their cartoons and spots according to what Wylie, or Katharine Angell, told them what Ross wanted.”* — So said New Yorker editor and writer Rogers Whitaker to Thurber biographer, Harrison Kinney. He was describing a wonderfully fun and exciting time and
Read moreIt’s tempting to believe that the structure of The New Yorker’s Art Department arrived fully formed in 1924 when Harold Ross, with his wife Jane Grant began pulling together his dream magazine. But of course, such was not the case. What we know for certain is that once the first issue was out, Ross and several of
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