The Cover: Without heading to the Table Of Contents and reading the title for this cover I’m going to guess it’s a comment on city noise. I’ve always felt New Yorker covers should work stand alone, without explanation, or description. This was the practice until Tina Brown’s revamp of the magazine, beginning with the issue of October 5, 1992. Okay,
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Liza Donnelly Draws Halloween; Andy Borowitz On His Work: “It’s almost like the verbal equivalent of a New Yorker cartoon”; Tom Toro in The Paris Review; Advertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 21: Addams for Sani-Flush; Steinberg: Artiste or Cartoonist?
Liza Donnelly Draws Halloween From Liza Donnelly, Halloween drawings for CBS This Morning. See them here. _______________________________________________________________ Andy Borowitz On His Work: “It’s almost like the verbal equivalent of a New Yorker cartoon” From Poynter, October 31, 2017 —“Satirist Andy Borowitz Explains the Fine Art of Lampooning Trump” — the interview by James Warren includes this quote from Mr. Borowitz
Read moreFave Book Cover (and Book) of the Week: Buzzi & Steinberg; A New Yorker State of Mind Looks at the Issue of August 25th 1928
Fave Book Cover (and Book) of the Week: Buzzi & Steinberg Liza Donnelly recently traveled to the west coast of Italy where she was presented with an award from the Museo della Satira d della Caricatura. She returned home with a box of cartoon books published over there. Among them was the book above, Aldo Buzzi & Saul Steinberg: Un’ Amicizia
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Pt. 17: Sam Cobean
No New Yorker cartoonist milked the humorous possibilities of (mostly female) total nudity like the late Sam Cobean (an example above), but you wouldn’t know it by the ads below. Mr. Cobean’s two collections, Cobean’s Naked Eye, and The Cartoons of Cobean (arranged and selected by Steinberg, with an Introduction by Mr. Cobean’s good friend, Charles Addams, published posthumously) are easily
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