Late Word On Two Events With Ken Krimstein My apologies for this late word, but here are two Zoom events with Ken Krimstein coming up today, one in just an hour. Mr. Krimstein, who began contributing his cartoons to The New Yorker in 2000, is the author of the highly praised When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies Of Six
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Alan Dunn’s 1,981st New Yorker Drawing In my earliest days at The New Yorker it seemed to be a gospel truth that Alan Dunn was the most prolific New Yorker artist. I’ve long been fascinated by how such facts are established as fact. I suppose it could be as simple as someone offhandedly saying to a colleague in an elevator one
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Over the weekend I showed you a Charles Saxon TV Guide Santa Cover. Here are a few more New Yorker artists who contributed TV Guide holiday covers. You can find these and so much more on this terrif resource, TV Guide Magazine: The Cover Archive. Clockwise from upper left: Ronald Searle (Dec. 25, 1976); Andre Francois (Dec. 20, 1975); William
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Three Book Ads Here’s a trio of ads I ran across this morning while having a fun breeze through of some late 1970s, early 1980s New Yorkers.* Seeing the Steig book ad, I’d forgotten the Lillian Ross intro — I’m inspired to dig the book out of the Spill library and see what Ms. Ross had to say about
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