From Untapped cities, “Upper West Side NYC Office Lobby Is A Mini R.O. Blechman Gallery Of New Yorker Covers” — Noted this on Facebook via J.J. Sedelmaier Mr. Blechman’s A-Z entry: R.O. Blechman (photo: Hillsdale, NY, 2017. photo by Elwood Smith). Born, New York, 1930. New Yorker work: Mr. Blechman is, among many other editorial and commercial pursuits, a cover artist
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A Button Sometimes the simplest things are the best things. Take for instance the Thurber dog eraser in the photo shown here. It came from the Thurber House gift shop I don’t know how many years ago. I’ve never used it as an eraser, and now, even if I wanted to (and I never will), it’s too late, as it’s
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Attempted Bloggery On An Interesting Auctioned New Yorker Cover Submission A Spill fave blog, Attempted Bloggery comes up with a very interesting cover submission (shown here) by an artist unfamiliar to me (I’m better at recalling cartoonists who are/were also cover artists than cover artists who aren’t/weren’t cartoonists). According to AB, Madeline S. Pereny sold three covers to The New
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Book On The Horizon…Joe Dator Coming this October from Turner Books, Santa Doesn’t Need Your Help, by Kevin Maher, with illustrations by the fab Joe Dator, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2006. Mr. Dator’s most recent book is his must-have Inked: Cartoons, Confessions, Rejected Ideas And Secret Sketches From The New Yorker’s Joe Dator Visit Joe
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