“New Yorker State Of Mind” On The New Yorker’s First Day Of Legal Beer Issue
A Spill fave blog, A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine, fills us in on the how The New Yorker dealt with the return of legal beer in the Prohibition era. As always, much to look at, read, and enjoy. Link here!
Cover by William Steig, whose Spill A-Z entry appears below.
William Steig Born in Brooklyn, NY, Nov. 14, 1907, died in Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2003. In a New Yorker career that lasted well over half a century and a publishing history that contains more than a cart load of books, both children’s and otherwise, it’s impossible to sum up Steig’s influence here on Ink Spill. He was among the giants of the New Yorker cartoon world, along with James Thurber, Saul Steinberg, Charles Addams, Helen Hokinson and Peter Arno. Lee Lorenz’s World of William Steig (Artisan, 1998) is an excellent way to begin exploring Steig’s life and work. New Yorker work: 1930 -2003.
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A non-New Yorker drawing (shown below) by the late Dean Vietor (1937- 2007), one of my favorite New Yorker cartoonists, has been listed on Ebay for quite awhile (it’s shown directly below). His work is rarely seen up for grabs there.
I’ve always thought of Mr. Vietor’s wonderful energetic loose-limbed style as deeply rooted in the Thurber school (I believe I’ve faithfully cited him when another Thurber school artist is mentioned on this site).
As long as Mr. Vietor’s work is on my mind, here are his New Yorker bookends, his first and last drawings in the magazine.
His first appeared in the issue of March 11, 1967.
His last appeared August 20, 2001:
In his 34 years with The New Yorker he published approximately 300 drawings, and one cover:
