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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“Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog” — James Thurber ________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest…Barry Blitt From The New Yorker, November 4, 2024, “How The Artist Barry Blitt Turns Politics Into Cartoon Cover Gold” Mr. Blitt has been contributing to The New
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Tom Wolfe’s “Tiny Mummies” Eustace As readers of the Spill know, I enjoy New Yorker parody variations, or even just plain old take-offs on the magazine, especially those that involve its mascot, Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley. A long long time ago (in 1965), before New York magazine was a stand alone publication, it was wrapped, as a special feature, inside
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