Peter Arno, In The New Yorker, 99 Years Ago This Week Looking through the January 23, 1926 (nearly one year old) New Yorker, you might expect it to be chock full of captioned drawings (a caption, for our purposes, is defined as text, enclosed in quotes, said by a character in the drawing). Or, if the issue wasn’t chock full,
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William Haefeli Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast William Haefeli (above, in the v-neck sweater) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998 joins the CCCP‘s co-hosts (l-r) Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, and Vin Coca (it’s episode #186, for those keeping track). Listen here. _________________________________________________________________ Mary Petty Draws Alan Dunn Here’s an ad for Alan Dunn’s 1931 collection,
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Fave Photo Of The Day… Here’s a photo I took of Liza Donnelly on blustery chilly East 63rd Street about to bring a fairly large Barbara Shermund New Yorker original drawing into The Society of Illustrators. It will join other work in the “Drawn From The New Yorker” exhibit opening this month. Ms. Donnelly has curated a truly fab show
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Greatly looking forward to this exhibit at The Society of Illustrators, curated by long-time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly Details from the SOI’s social media post: More information here — the drawing above is from Gluyas Williams’s New Yorker series, Fellow Citizens. This one, titled Observation Platform, was published March 11, 1933. See it in full here ________________________________________________________________ Ali Solomon’s
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