The Cover: With this weird summer winding down, Barry Blitt’s opera singer cut-outs cover seems to fit right in. Read a Q&A with him here. The Cartoonists: Of note: Sarah Akinterinwa makes her New Yorker debut in the issue. She is the 12th newbie of this year and the 65th cartoonist brought in under Emma Allen’s cartoon editorship (begun
Read moreRandom thoughts on the cartoons (and other stuff) in the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr., by Diana Ejaita. Read a Q&A with her here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Another issue with a healthy dose of cartoons, taking place in far and afield scenarios including a yoga class (courtesy of Lila
Read moreThe Cover: A retro cover! When I saw this attractive cover I immediately placed its style and structure in the early 1960s, and thought of a particular artist: the most prolific of all New Yorker cover artists, Arthur Getz. To illustrate, here’s Mr. Getz’s cover from December 18, 1965 side-by-side with this new one by Pascal Campion. The Cartoonists: The
Read moreHere’s The New Yorker cartoonist Amy Hwang writing about the current Pearl River Mart Gallery exhibit: “Asian Babies: Work From Asian New Yorker Cartoonists” When I started drawing cartoons for The New Yorker in 2010, I did not think much of the fact that I was possibly the only cartoonist of Asian* descent contributing at the time. It was hard
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