Tuesday Spill: 96 Years Ago…The First New Yorker Album: “The Rich Top-Cream Of The Jests”

As we move closer the The New Yorker‘s 100th birthday in February of 2025, I find myself revisiting the magazine’s earliest issues, and earliest cartoon collections, and thinking about “firsts.” The first seventeen cartoon collections were called “Albums. ” The very first Album was published in 1928 (The New Yorker Album) — the last Album (The New Yorker Cartoon Album

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