George Price: “The Chuckling Champion Of The Washed-Out Man” We expect puffery in advertising, and this ad for the late great George Price’s 1940 cartoon collection, Good Humor Man, doesn’t disappoint (“the year’s biggest and best book of humor”). I like the “chuckling champion” but “washed-out man” seems a bit, well, odd as a selling point. Price’s cartoon world was
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First & Last…Chon Day… A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last Most cartoonist’s styles begin one way and end another (there’re exceptions, always exceptions!). Case in point in the change column is Chon Day. His first New Yorker cartoon below, published in 1931, looks nothing like his last, published in 1998.
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Above: Lee Lorenz’s swivel chair at The New Yorker, 25 West 43rd Street, late 1980s. Cartoonists showing their work would sit opposite him. Photo: Liza Donnelly Lee Lorenz: An Appreciation Lee Lorenz, the former New Yorker art editor and cartoonist who passed away a week ago today at age 90, did me a huge favor forty-five years ago when he
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Auction Watch: A Richard McCallister Rough While scanning Ebay this morning I was surprised to come across the Richard McCallister rough shown below; I’d seen it quite awhile ago, and then hadn’t seen it for a long time — I assumed it found a home. McCallister (who died in 1995) was primarily an idea person — his captions/ideas were central
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