J.C. Duffy IDs His Bill Maher “Decoded” Cartoon
J.C. Duffy, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998, has posted his New Yorker drawing that was discussed (or “decoded” as Mr. Maher puts it) in the latest clip of Maher describing New Yorker cartoons and then reading the captions (without actually showing the drawing itself).
Mr. Maher’s decoding is a good idea, and fun to watch. One suggestion: I would urge him to tell us whose cartoon he’s decoding.
See Mr. Duffy’s drawing here on his blog Night Deposits.
More Decoding…
New Yorker cartoonist, Joe Dator recently IDed his own cartoon decoded in an earlier episode. See Joe Dator’s cartoon here.
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A John Held, Jr. After Shave Cream Ad
Here’s something I ran across the other day that caught my eye — an ad in The New Yorker issue of May 14, 1927. New Yorker readers back in its earliest days were used to seeing a lot of John Held’s drawings (125 of them, to be exact), but they weren’t used to seeing them in color. In this hand cream ad we get a good idea of how his woodcut drawings would look in color (we already knew how he used color in his other work — the work that made him famous).
John Held, Jr.’s A-Z Entry:
John Held Jr (Photo source: Sketchbook of American Humorists, 1938) Born, January 10, 1889, Salt Lake City, Utah. Died, 1958, Belmar, New Jersey. New Yorker work: April 11, 1925 – Sept. 17, 1932.