On this day, the 21st of February, the date on the very first issue of The New Yorker, I thought it would be fun to line up each anniversary issue celebrating another ten years that followed that first number. Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley cover was gilded in 1995, and sat out the 2005, and 2015 anniversary covers, but thankfully returned
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We’re just a couple of days from the publication of The New Yorker‘s 100th anniversary issue. I thought this as good a time as any to toast Harold Ross, the fellow who invented the magazine, along with his wife, Jane Grant. Together they figured out the look, the financing, and the content of (in Ms. Grant’s words) the “introductory number.”
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: The 25th, 50th, and 75th Anniversary Issues I thought it would be fun on this Friday, the day The New Yorker‘s 100th Anniversary issue closes, and just days before it is published, to take a quick look at how the magazine celebrated its other “big” milestones. If you have a subscription, you can spend
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Birthday… The Spill continues to note postings tied into The New Yorker’s centennial celebrations The latest comes to us online. Scroll down to Cartoon Highlights once you’ve linked here: A Slideshow: “Cartoon Highlights: 1925-1935” _________________________________________________________________________ From The Department Of Self-Promotion If you’re looking for a book celebrating New Yorker cartoonists and their art in
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