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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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary We would have to assume that one hundred years ago this week, Harold Ross was sitting with, at the least, a fairly complete “dummy” of, or perhaps an early run copy of the very first issue of his new magazine, The New Yorker — maybe (likely!) putting some final touches on it. In
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Fave Photo OF The Week: Maggie Larson And The Sturgeon King Maggie Larson, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, posted this photo on social media the other day. We see Ms. Larson standing with The Sturgeon King himself. Ms. Larson is holding an original New Yorker drawing that originally appeared in the December 24, 2024 issue. Visit Maggie
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A Game (File Under: The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary Celebration) The New Yorker has introduced something they call “Laugh Lines.” It has to do with placing New Yorker cartoons in the correct period they were published. I’ve said it before (will I ever say it again?) — I’m not a puzzles person (other than solving the daily puzzles that are the
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