90 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker Every so often I like to check in with The New Yorker‘s past (for those who want to make it a regular thing, I highly suggest the terrif website, A New Yorker State of Mind). I rolled the dice today and thought: “Hmmm, 90 years ago is probably interesting.” So back
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Jason Chatfield’s Substack Jason Chatfield (the Spill‘s Sports correspondent) has a new Substack, “New York Cartoons.” It leads off with “Coming To America” — fun (free!) interesting writing (and more) from Mr. Chatfield who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. You can subscribe here. ___________________________________________________________________ 68 Years Ago In The New Yorker I keep a list of all
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A Look At The New Yorker’s 25th Anniversary Issue This morning I grabbed a bound volume of New Yorkers off the shelf that includes the magazine’s 25th anniversary issue. Hmmmm, I thought to myself…1950. interesting time for the magazine, with the semi-modern wave of cartoonists (Saxon, Weber, Lorenz, Miller, etc.) yet to arrive. If we remember that Harold Ross (the
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The Cover: The second cover in a matter of weeks by newcomer (to The New Yorker) Grace Lynne Haynes. Read a Q&A with her here. The Cartoonists: Six cartoons by six cartoonists. As you can see by the graphic, there’s a bit of Tilley Trivia to be squeezed out of this lineup. I believe (and as always I ask that
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