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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Back in the old days, around the Fall of 1992 let’s say, when Tina Brown‘s very first edited issue of The New Yorker hit the newsstand, much was made of the Edward Sorel cover showing a “punker” riding in a horse drawn carriage, often referred to as a Hansom cab. Some suggested it was symbolic: the old New Yorker (symbolized
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A J.C. Duffy Promotional Video Here’s a two-and-a-half minute slideshow of J.C. Duffy’s work on Curated Cartoons (where you can buy original New Yorker cartoon art). Mr. Duffy created the video and also provided his own original music. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. I believe that the very first meta-New Yorker cartoon was drawn by Mr.
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We’re in the second week of a double issue, so no new New Yorker (and thus, no new New Yorker cartoons) to peruse this morning. Have you ever wondered when The New Yorker started doubling up issues? The magazine was a weekly from its (famous) first issue, dated February 21, 1925 all the way til December 20, 1993. It managed
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