Edward Graham, Discovered, Added To The A-Z
Looking through (way way) back issues of The New Yorker seems a distant cousin of panning for gold. I’m not sure I’ve ever gone through an issue from the past without finding something that stirs up my brain cells. After coming across the mystery cartoonist mentioned here yesterday, I came upon another cartoonist unknown to me: Edward Graham. The Complete New Yorker database lists his contributions to the magazine as 17 cartoons, but the true number (going by what I saw by looking through his work) is 16. The first drawing attributed to him, appearing January 1, 1927, does not appear to be by Graham, but by yet another mystery cartoonist(!). Graham’s first cartoon appeared April 23, 1927. A quick tour of his 16 drawings tells us (shows us too) that he was interested mostly in the upper crust: a lot of socialites. Only two of the sixteen aren’t of that vein. The one shown above is a good example of Graham’s usual territory. It appeared in The New Yorker, April 7, 1928. A very weedsy thing about the drawing: it carries a double set of the twin New Yorker dots sometimes found below cartoons. A rarity! I found at least one other Graham drawing with double twin-dots. Go figure!
One of Graham’s two non-upper crusty-centric drawings is below (from the issue of December 31, 1932); it was his last New Yorker appearance.
Here’s a compact look at Graham’s career, including some cover work of his for Judge and Ballyhoo.
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Daily Cartoons & Cartoonists
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