Continuing on with the Spill’s series of advertising work by New Yorker Cartoonists (research and scans courtesy of Warren Bernard of SPX) is this great campaign by Rambler from the late 1950s. Some of the best of the best in the New Yorker’s stable were involved: William Steig, George Price, Whitney Darrow, Jr., Barney Tobey, Chon Day, and Otto Soglow
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Fairfield County (CT) Cartoonists; E.B. and Katharine White’s Home for Sale; Lots of Peter Arno on Pinterest; William Steig’s Connecticut Home For Sale
Fairfield County Connecticut’s Cartoonists Here’s a really nice article in Vanity Fair, “When Fairfield County Was the Comic-Strip Capital of The World” – written by Cullen Murphy, whose father drew “Prince Valiant” — a number of New Yorker artists show up (as you might expect as the county also had a large concentration of cartoonists from the magazine…see this link
Read moreAdvertising Work by New Yorker Cartoonists, Part 2: William Steig
And now for Part 2 of what will be many parts of an adwork display by New Yorker cartoonists, all courtesy of Warren Bernard, indefatigable cartoon collector, and Executive Director of the Small Press Expo, or SPX. There are too many ads by William Steig to show in one sitting, so he’ll have to have his own Part 2
Read more50 Years Ago This Week…In The New Yorker
A Summer of Love issue of The New Yorker begins with Peter Arno’s 98th cover for the magazine (out of 101). Arno’s color palette in his last years had turned (mostly) brighter, his composition (mostly) a little more casual. This cover is an excellent example. Within the magazine we find an array of graphically balanced cartoons appearing on the pages
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