____________________________________________________________________ Every artist has their own graphic vocabulary — those favorite elements they return to again and again. Some do it out of habit, others out of affection (love even!). I recently looked at a lot of William Steig’s work. One thing that occurred to me as I looked through: he really liked trees. For example, here are some Steig
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High Bar: The New Yorker’s 1979 Anniversary Issue On a recent podcast, I mentioned my tendency to avoid using “best” — you know: best cartoonist, best cartoon, best cover, best pizza, etc., etc.. (I also avoid using “worst”). With that in mind, I won’t go as far as saying the 1979 anniversary issue of The New Yorker is the best
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An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Lars Kenseth, Mads Horwath, Harry Bliss, Guy Richards Smit, P.C. Vey. See the Daily cartoons here. _______________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On A Peter Arno Original Drawing Attempted Bloggery looks at and into an interesting and somewhat baffling Peter Arno Whoops
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A Meta New Yorker Cartoon By Warren Miller Yesterday, taking a break from drawing, I began poking through a stack of New Yorkers from the late 1960s. An Andre Francois cover on the issue of July 26, 1969 grabbed my attention. I’ve always loved Mr. Francois’s cover work (it’s possible I’m especially fond of it because he had the cover
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