Exhibit of Interest: Not OK From the New York Times, September 21, 2017, “The New Yorker Said No, But These Cartoons Just May Make Your Day” — this piece on tomorrow’s sure-to-be-fun show of rejected work. So what is an “OK”? It’s what every cartoonist submitting to The New Yorker hopes to see in their inbox at the end of
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Firsts: Jack Ziegler
Beginning today, Ink Spill will every so often, and without warning, run the first New Yorker cartoon by one of its artists. Accompanying the drawing will be that issues Table of Contents, so we have an idea of the lay of the magazine’s cartoon land at that time. Starting
Read more“The Place Was Especially A Mess After The Weekly Art Meetings”
… “The artists, who waited for the verdicts, scrambled for desk space where they could retouch their cartoons and spots according to what Wylie, or Katharine Angell, told them what Ross wanted.”* — So said New Yorker editor and writer Rogers Whitaker to Thurber biographer, Harrison Kinney. He was describing a wonderfully fun and exciting time and
Read moreSteig Covers Brendan Gill’s Here At The New Yorker
A few days ago I took a look at Charles Addams’s original cover for Brendan Gill’s Here At The New Yorker (Random House, 1975). Today I’m adding the 1990 edition of that book
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