“Good Provider” New Yorker Cartoons On Attempted Bloggery Thanks to Daniel Borinsky via Stephen Nadler’s terrif Attempted Bloggery we have this survey of “good provider” New Yorker cartoons over the decades. Read it all here. — above: Barney Tobey’s “good provider” cartoon from The New Yorker, June 25, 1984 ___________________________________________________________________ The New York Times Notes Felipe Galindo’s “Portrait Of My
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According to Harper’s, “The Future, If Any, Of Comedy… or, where do we non-go from here” published in its December 1961 issue is “believed to be the last piece Mr. Thurber wrote.” As you see in the scan below, it first appeared in London, in The Times Literary Supplement. It appeared on US newsstands via Harper’s the month Thurber
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Liza Donnelly’s 2021 NYC Marathon Drawings As in her 1st NYC Marathon two years ago, Liza Donnelly ran and drew. Here’s a piece from Medium about her experience. Ms. Donnelly’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Liza Donnelly Born, Washington, D.C. New Yorker work: June 21, 1982 – Key book: Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons
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________________________________________________________________________________ Personal Cartoon History I was wandering around The New Yorker’s online archive this evening when I came across this drawing of mine from the January 9, 1984 issue. I looked at it for a few seconds then realized that it’s very different from all of my work in the magazine as it’s blatantly autobiographical. What you see is the
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