With the release this past week of The New Yorker’s Cartoons of the Year 2013 (a relative of a long line of New Yorker Albums seen in the photo) I thought it would be fun to leaf through The New Yorker‘s very first collection, simply called The New Yorker Album. published in
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Harold Ross’s Last Cartoonist: Dana Fradon
By the late 1940s, Harold Ross, The New Yorker’s legendary founder and first editor, had assembled either by happy accident or design (depending on which version of the magazine’s history you want to believe) a stable of magazine cartoonists unrivaled in American publishing. Some have called that era of the magazine’s cartoons its Golden Age. The guiding forces of the
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From newyorker.com, August 7, 2013, “Performance Enhancement in Baseball” — an illustrated post by Jason Novak and Mike Duncan. (Above: one of Mr. Novak’s drawings from the piece). and… Another interesting post from Attempted Bloggery, August 9, 2013, “Rea Irvin: Vacationtime in the Virgin Islands”
Read moreIn the House: Curtain Calls of 1926
This wonderful book arrived in today’s mail. I was very lucky to find it for the price of a couple of slices of pizza (with toppings). According to an online bookseller’s listing there were 40 copies produced. It’s a small book, 8 1/2″ high, 6″ wide. I’d only seen one before, years ago in a museum case. If I’ve had
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