Possibly my all-time fave New Yorker Valentine’s Day cover. From the one, the only, Charles Addams. Published February 16, 1981. It was used as the cover of his 1981 collection, Creature Comforts. I don’t remember many moments of being so wowed by a cover that the moment of first seeing it stayed with me (another such moment was when Steinberg’s
Read more— from The New Yorker, Feb. 22, 2016 __________________________________________________________________ A Case For Pencils Spotlights Nick Downes Jane Mattimoe’s terrif blog, A Case For Pencils features Nick Downes this week. Take a look. Mr. Downes, shown here in a sort of Eustace Tilley-ish pose, began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit Mr. Downes’s website here. ________________________________________________________ Today’s
Read moreHere’s a twenty-eight year old cover from the great Lee Lorenz that manages to celebrate both Valentine’s Day and Presidents Day. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ …Liza Donnelly will be Live-Drawing the Grammys tonight. Follow the
Read moreFrom the archives, a rejected cover from ages ago…
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