Auction of Interest: Swann Offers Numerous New Yorker Cartoons; Covers Calendar Noted; Video: Mankoff on Science of Humor

Swann’s upcoming auction on January 22nd is chock full of New Yorker cartoons, with work by a number of the magazine’s giants. Cartoons on the block by Steinberg, Mischa Richter, Barbara Shermund, William Steig, Richard Taylor, Edward Sorel, Victoria Roberts, Charles Addams, Helen Hokinson, Rea Irvin, and Peter Arno. Below: a beautiful early Steig included in the auction. Link here

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Rea Irvin, Beyond The New Yorker

                          Rea Irvin, who gave us the impossibly perfect Eustace Tilley (the top-hatted dandy on the first issue of The New Yorker, February 21, 1925) was no budding flower when Harold Ross hired him to guide the  magazine’s art. Irvin was an established artist, with his cartoons and

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Rea Irvin Parodies His Eustace Tilley New Yorker Cover

An exceptionally generous friend of Ink Spill recently donated a bundle of rare New Yorker ephemera to the archives. I’ll post some from time-to-time, beginning with this wonderful parody of the New Yorker‘s very first cover.  There have been a number of parodies of the Eustace Tilley cover over the years, but until this piece arrived in the mail I’d

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