Do Numbers Matter? I’m not good with numbers, but I do enjoy numbering. For instance: I keep track of new New Yorker cartoonists as they enter the fold; I have a year-by-year list of who was published, and when their first drawing appeared in the magazine. It gives me some kind of anchoring satisfaction to glance at the list and
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Chris Weyant On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The 50th New Yorker Caption Contest Podcast has been posted with Chris Weyant as the guest. Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Vin Coca are the hosts. Hear it here. Chris Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. –Clockwise from top left: Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Chris
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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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