Celebrating The New Yorker’s Centennial: The Headings From The First Issue Here, in order of their appearance in The New Yorker‘s debut issue are all of the column headings. The designer/artist was the one-and-only Rea Irvin. Some of the names have survived 100 years, but none of the designs. Of All Thing’s skyline with Eustace Tilley and the owl soon
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The New Yorker Is 100 Years Old!… “We Long To Be Something Else”; The Monday Tilley Watch…The Issue of February 17 & 24, 2025
On this happy occasion of the 100th anniversary of The New Yorker, it’s instructive to look at the second issue of the magazine, dated February 28, 1925. Was it perhaps too soon for Harold Ross to look back (one week!) critically on his debut issue? From everything I’ve read about Ross, the answer is no. It has been said that
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Friday Spill: Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: The 25th, 50th, and 75th Anniversary Issues; Audio Of Interest…New Yorker Editor David Remnick On The Brian Lehrer Show…GOAT Celebrates
Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: The 25th, 50th, and 75th Anniversary Issues I thought it would be fun on this Friday, the day The New Yorker‘s 100th Anniversary issue closes, and just days before it is published, to take a quick look at how the magazine celebrated its other “big” milestones. If you have a subscription, you can spend
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Wednesday Spill: Wheeler, Chast, Chatfield, Donnelly & More On Jules Feiffer; Book On The Horizon…Rea Irvin’s The Smythes; Two Events Of Interest; Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary…25 West 43rd St.
Wheeler, Chatfield, Donnelly, Chatfield, And More On Jules Feiffer From The Comics Journal, February 3, 2025, “Remembering Jules Feiffer” — a number of artists, including The New Yorker folks mentioned above, weigh in on Mr. Feiffer who passed away on January 17th of 2025. _________________________________________________________________ Rea Irvin’s The Smythes From New York Review Comics, word of a forthcoming
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