A Saxon Santa Cover I usually associate Charles Saxon covers with The New Yorker (and no wonder — he had 93 covers), but here’s a terrif TV Guide cover from the issue of December 24-30, 1977 featuring Saxon’s art. Saxon’s A-Z entry: Charles Saxon (self portrait from Best Cartoons of the Year 1947) Born in Brooklyn, Nov 13, 1920,
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Latest Cartoon Pad Guest: Shannon Wheeler Mr. Too Much Coffee Man himself joins hosts (and New Yorker colleagues) Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw in this latest episode of the Pad. Hear it here. Mr. Wheeler began contributing to The New Yorker in 2009; Mr. Shaw in 1999; Mr. Eckstein in 2007. _____________________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist … is Yasin Osman,
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Many many years ago, before I began holding onto every New Yorker-centric thing that came my way, I gave my first edition copy of Thurber’s 1939 classic, The Last Flower to a friend (the friend who showed me the very first Thurber drawing I’d ever seen). Over the years I stayed away from re-acquiring a first edition (I did acquire
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Last Friday’s opening of “Cartooning While Black” with work by the artists Victor Varnado, Akeem Roberts, Yasin Osman, and Jerald Lewis II, was an historic occasion. The show is the very first exhibit by Black New Yorker cartoonists. The Spill asked Mr. Varnado to speak on this moment, and here’s what he had to say: “I’m proud of the Cartooning
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