E.B White and James Thurber — the names go together like soup and sandwich, or, um…horse and carriage. New Yorker history buffs will recall that Thurber’s first book, Is Sex Necessary, was co-authored with E.B. White, and that the two shared an office at The New Yorker in their earliest years at the magazine. It was White who fished a
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The Tilley Watch Online, May 29 – June 2, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brendan Loper, Paul Noth, Mick Stevens, Yasin Osman, Emily Bernstein. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook:
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Video Of Interest: Pete Beard’s “New Yorker Covers 1925-1939” Here’s a ten minute survey of early New Yorker covers and a select few of the magazine’s earliest cover artists. It’s part of a now long running series by Pete Beard, “Unsung Heroes Of Illustration.” This is a ten minute look at some of the magazine’s early cover art and artists.
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Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015. Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie
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