Interview Of Interest From Comics DC, December 30, 2020, “A Chat With DC Born Cartoonist Liza Donnelly” — an interview with Ms. Donnelly* whose first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1982. Her entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Liza Donnelly Born, Washington, D.C. New Yorker work: June 21, 1982 –. Key book: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women
Read moreA Look At Some Of The Cartoonists & Cartoons In The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: What looks suspiciously like a UPS deliveryman is carrying a fully decorated Christmas tree up the steps of a city brownstone. The deliveryman seems to have something in his mouth. A peach? A corn muffin? Or, possibly an ornament that fell
Read moreThe Cover: Without heading to the Table Of Contents and reading the title for this cover I’m going to guess it’s a comment on city noise. I’ve always felt New Yorker covers should work stand alone, without explanation, or description. This was the practice until Tina Brown’s revamp of the magazine, beginning with the issue of October 5, 1992. Okay,
Read moreThe Cover: It’s the Style Issue this week….thus the bountiful polka dots on Malika Favre’s eighth cover for the magazine. A Q&A with the artist here. If you link to the Q&A you’ll see the polka dot dress swirl. I can’t see that many polka dots (and red) on the cover without thinking of Peter Arno’s March 23, 1935 New
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