This week’s republication of a 1936 James Thurber New Yorker cover sent me over the moon (honestly, any Thurber art on the cover would’ve). It also sent me back, via The New Yorker‘s online archive to that year’s covers, and cover artists. Anytime I look at issues of many years gone by I experience a that was then, this is
Read moreHere’s an early New Yorker oddity in the line of the Albums published. It’s the first published for a specific year. There were later annual Albums (1940, 1942, and much much later 2007, 2008, and 2009). Curious that, for the first time there is no foreword. Perhaps the editors thought they’d take a break after the highly interesting double foreword
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