Event Of Interest: Lia Strasser & Bizzy Coy This duo began contributing to The New Yorker in May of 2024 _____________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of February 1, 1936 A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine takes its patented close-look at a long ago issue. This week
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Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her
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Saxon, Vietor, Park, Shermund, Starke, Hokinson, Soglow, Hamilton, Shellhase Originals On Ebay There’s life in original cartoon art — the markings, the “mistakes,”(often covered up with white out), the errant fingerprints, the ink and/or pencil or watercolors on paper, the aged (or not) color of the paper –all of it. Here’s a gathering of some of the original art
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First And Last: W.B.Park A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last W.B. Park Born, 1936, Sanford, Florida. Died, January 2, 2021. New Yorker work: 1981 –2000. Cartoon Collections: Off The Leash (Topper, 1989); Far Off The Leash (Ravette, 1989) I always liked Mr.
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