Early Posting: A Roz Chast Sketchpad Sometimes we get an early release cover, and other times we get a humor piece. Today it’s the latter. From next week’s (double) issue, dated April 26 & May 3, 2021, here’s Ms. Chast’s Sketchpad feature, “Fending And Other Terms For Fridge-Foraging Dinners” Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978. Visit her
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Thumb through the Index of nearly any book about a New Yorker writer from the golden age of the magazine and you’ll find at least one mention of James Thurber. I semi-randomly took two books off the shelf this morning and found the following quotes from John Cheever, and Truman Capote. While Cheever’s Thurber mention is mainly about Harold Ross
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Two Classifications Of New Yorker Cartoons If you look at Wolcott Gibbs‘s Foreward in Charles Addams’s 1947 cartoon collection, Addams And Evil, you’ll find this interesting opening sentence. Mr. Gibbs goes on to use Helen Hokinson as an example of an artist who contributed “straight” cartoons, and Addams as “nutty.” Mr. Gibbs describes Ms. Hokinson as a “social critic” with
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Article Of Interest: Liza Donnelly From NBCnews.com, April 12, 2021, “How This Cartoonist Fought For Her Dream To Draw For The New Yorker — And Made It Happen” — this piece on Ms. Donnelly whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in 1982. An expanded edition of Funny Ladies, her must-have book covering the history of women cartoonists at The New
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From a great little catalog for a 1943 exhibit, “Meet The Artist,” at San Francisco’s M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, here’s a Thurber self portrait and bio, with the intriguing first sentence: “My life story is simple.” The exhibit also included the following New Yorker artists: Alajalov, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Richard Decker, Alan Dunn, William Gropper, Rea Irvin, Roberta Macdonald,
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