An Ink Spill Thanksgiving tradition continues with the re-posting of my nod to one of this day’s pastimes. Originally published in The New Yorker, October 16, 2006.
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A Rafter of Kovarsky Turkeys; A Favorite Thanksgiving Cartoon Revisited
A Rafter of Kovarsky Turkeys Thanks to the generosity of Anatol Kovarsky’s family, here are a number of the artist’s unpublished sketches (mostly turkeys, plus a few chickens) as well as an unpublished sketch of his Thanksgiving New Yorker cover of November 24, 1962 ( the finished cover art appears as well). Mr. Kovarsky’s work will be celebrated this coming
Read moreThe Thanksgiving Turkey’s New Yorker Cover & Cartoon Debut
Two Thanksgivings passed by in the New Yorker‘s earliest years before a turkey made the cover. The artist for the issue of November 19, 1927: the one-and-only Rea Irvin. Here’s Mr. Irvin’s entry on Ink Spill‘s “New Yorker Cartoonists A-Z”: Rea Irvin (pictured above. Self portrait above from Meet the Artist) *Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972.
Read moreThanks, Tom!
Here’s an unpublished drawing posted in the spirit of the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
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