New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Panel “Very Funny Ladies” With Donnelly, Chast, Hwang, And Finck It’s back! Amidst all the other panels and appearances this Fall there’s a virtual must-see panel for fans of New Yorker cartoons and cartoonists. “Very Funny Ladies” with Liza Donnelly (whose updated history of New Yorker women cartoonists, Very Funny
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Newest Additions To The Spill Library This new addition to the spotty Spill collection of bound New Yorkers was a real treat to go through. Two Arno covers out of nine issues — he was on a hot streak in those post-war years. Memorable moments: early Steinberg drawings (captionless); a few “composite” Thurber drawings, and a number of captionless artist-in-the
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A Richard Taylor “Rough” On Ebay Here’s something you don’t see very often: a pencil sketch…i.e., a “rough” drawing by the late great Richard Taylor. I can’t remember ever seeing one of his roughs up for grabs before. Mr. Taylor had perhaps the most out-there style of the golden age New Yorker artists (those saucer-shaped eyes!). For what it’s worth,
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An Obscure Program With Art By Addams, Arno, Thurber, Soglow…And More Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery takes a close look at a rare Navy Relief Show Program from 1942, provided to him by Joel Jacobus. As you can see from the page below, the event included work by a number of The New Yorker‘s star artists, including Charles Addams, Constantin Alajalov,
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