Monday Spill Last week’s New Yorker was a double issue, dated September 1 & 8, 2025, meaning no new issue to page through. On this Labor Day in the 100th year anniversary of The New Yorker it seemed like a fun idea to take a look at the magazine’s very first cover published around Labor Day of 1925 (the actual
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: 25 West 45th Street Here’s a contemporary photo of 25 West 45th Street, where The New Yorker‘s first offices were located (the building was, in the 1920s, owned by the Fleischmann family. Raoul Fleischmann, who put up the lion’s share of cash to fund the new magazine, offered office space to Harold Ross).
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More Thurber From Stage Magazine What you’re seeing are James Thurber’s illustrations for his December 1936 Stage Magazine review of Noel Coward’s “Tonight At 8:30.” (cover below by Abe Birnbaum)* Harrison Kinney, in his massive and terrific Thurber biography, James Thurber: His Life And Times (Henry Holt, 1995), tells us this brief story about Thurber driving to Boston to see
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First And Last New Yorker Cartoon…Gilbert Wilkinson Here’s a cartoonist whose entire time at The New Yorker was spent in the magazine’s infancy: eight drawings in five months, from April 4, 1925 through August 29, 1925. Unlike last week’s First and Last subject (James Mulligan) whose biography remains a mystery despite his three decades at The New Yorker, there is
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