Peter Arno, In The New Yorker, 99 Years Ago This Week
Looking through the January 23, 1926 (nearly one year old) New Yorker, you might expect it to be chock full of captioned drawings (a caption, for our purposes, is defined as text, enclosed in quotes, said by a character in the drawing). Or, if the issue wasn’t chock full, you might expect what cartoons did appear to carry a single line of text, and not the old style, so-called he/she variety consisting of at least two lines of dialogue. The issue of January 23, 1926 surprises by having just one captioned drawing — the one you see below by Peter Arno, and, that one captioned cartoon is a he/she drawing. Go figure!
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…If you have a print edition of Sunday’s (January 12, 2025) New York Times Book Review, you should check out Ellis Rosen‘s Sketchbook “Unread Classics” (can’t locate a link to it, sorry).
…A 2024 French prize for Will McPhail’s 2021 IN (Au-Dedans)
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A reminder about this Thursday’s opening reception for Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration. All the information here. Hope to see you there.
