In May of 1935, New Yorker founder and editor, Harold Ross sent a six word memo to Wolcott Gibbs, at one time the artists so-called hand-holder, i.e., the middleman between the cartoonists and the editors: “Best ideas lately come from Maloney.” “Maloney” was Russell Maloney, a Harvard graduate, who peppered the New Yorker with so many
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New Yorker Cartoons & war
Pictured above: a handful of World War II era publications from The New Yorker. Beginning at twelve o’clock high, with the red cover is The New Yorker Cartoons with The Talk of The Town (1945) — it’s the hard cover version of the New Yorker booklet to the left (cover by Alajalov). This is an exciting publication, chock full of great
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My thanks to New Yorker cartoonist, Liam Walsh, for passing along this link to a clip from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1944 film, Lifeboat, wherein Eustace Tilley has a cameo at the 2:04 mark. Note: Russell Maloney profiled Hitchcock in The New Yorker, September 10, 1938; great reading, including this tidbit about Hitchcock’s dining habit: “He likes to eat steak and ice
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