A Game (File Under: The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary Celebration)
The New Yorker has introduced something they call “Laugh Lines.” It has to do with placing New Yorker cartoons in the correct period they were published. 
I’ve said it before (will I ever say it again?) — I’m not a puzzles person (other than solving the daily puzzles that are the cartoon bits and pieces that fall my way on the blank page) but I hope puzzles peeps find it rewarding.
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A Conversation in Pennsylvania
The author of Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art Of Barbara Shermund will be in conversation at Partners and Son in The City of Love, February 13th. Information here.
(My thanks to New Yorker cartoonist Drew Panckeri for the notice).
Sidebar: Want to see several Barbara Shermund originals in person? Head on over to The Society of Illustrators exhibit, Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration.
The rather large Shermund drawing below that appeared in The New Yorker, May 19, 1928 is on display along with one other (and another Shermund greets you at the Society’s entrance, right by the staircase. (Photo: Stephen Nadler)
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Another New Yorker cartoonist, Bob Eckstein, has alerted me to this website loaded with New Yorker product: jigsaw puzzles, playing cards, mugs….
Want more? There’s this site as well, for hats, umbrellas, sweatshirts, and even a (non-Rea Irvin drawn) Eustace Tilley to chew on:
