Pat Crow, a colleague at The New Yorker and a neighbor—he lived down the street —died last week at the age of seventy-one. Pat was the elder statesman among us local upstate New Yorkers, having made his way to The New Yorker in 1967. In an 2001 interview with the Arkansas Gazette, Pat recalled that William Shawn hired him even
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“What’s So Funny About Red?” Color Cartoons in The New Yorker
I’m betting that a good number of The New Yorker’s readers (you know, those folks who go to the cartoons before looking at anything else in the magazine) have noticed something colorful going on with the cartoons. Four out of the first five issues of the new year have a color cartoon (the cartoons in the issue of January 24th
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