The After-Shave Club Who knew! Once upon a time, long ago, there was an after-shave club (at least in the minds of ad folks). Here’s an ad showing a drawing by New Yorker artist and club member, Alajalov. As you see in the copy, James Thurber lent his name to Aqua Velva’s campaign. One didn’t need to do anything but
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Pardon this weedsy excursion. I was looking through the newyorker.com archive of back issues when I spied a beautiful Alajalov cover (below) for the issue of October 19, 1946. It made me want to look through the entire issue. Leafing through entire issues always produces something of interest: an ad, a “spot” drawing, a cartoon, a written piece — well,
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First & Last New Yorker Drawing…Robert Kraus A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last To begin with, here’s the Spill‘s Robert Kraus A-Z entry. Robert Kraus Born June 21, 1925, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; died, Kent, Connecticut, 2001. In 1966 he founded Windmill Books, which published children’s books by such New Yorker artists
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Thurber Thursday: Latest Addition To The Spill Archives…A Thurber Scarf Over the past few years I’ve followed the Richard Farrar New Yorker cartoon scarf pieces posted on Attempted Bloggery. Stephen Nadler, the person behind the AB‘s curtain has shown us scarves decorated with Thurber drawings, Anatol Kovarsky drawings, Mischa Richter drawings, William Steig drawings, and Charles Addams drawings (a recent
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