Film Of Interest: Wes Anderson’s New Yorker-ish “The French Dispatch” From The New Yorker‘s Culture Desk, February 11, 2020, “A Look At Wes Anderson’s New, New Yorker-Inspired Film” — this should be fun. Above: the poster, which resembles a certain magazine’s cover. Read more here. Above: Bill Murray as the magazine’s editor, Arthur Howitzer, Jr. — a character “inspired by
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The New Yorker Date & Price Switcheroo; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s); Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Blitt’s Kvetchbook; New Yorker Cartoonist Newbies 2019
New Yorker Date & Price Switcheroo. It’s only taken me twenty-two years to notice that the New Yorker switched its cover placement of the issue date and issue price. Since the very first issue, published February 21, 1925, the issue date appeared top left, and the price upper right. Seventy-three years after that first issue, in the summer of 1998,
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The Cover: Without heading to the Table Of Contents and reading the title for this cover I’m going to guess it’s a comment on city noise. I’ve always felt New Yorker covers should work stand alone, without explanation, or description. This was the practice until Tina Brown’s revamp of the magazine, beginning with the issue of October 5, 1992. Okay,
Read moreRobert Crumb And Aline Kominsky-Crumb At Columbia This Fall; The Tilley Watch Online, July 15-19, 2019; Fave Photo Of The Day: Some New Yorker Folks At The San Diego Comic Con; NYTs Opinion Piece Of Interest: “The Vicious Fun Of America’s Most Famous Literary Circle”
Robert Crumb And Aline -Kominsky Crumb At Columbia This Fall Columbia University’s Curator For Comics and Cartoons, Karen Green, announced at the San Diego Comic Com that Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Peter Bagge will be appearing this Fall at Columbia University…no further info at the moment. Here’s the article from The Beat, July 20, 2019, “Things Go Off
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