Tuesday Spill: Pub Day For “At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker”; Pub Day For “Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life And Art Of Barbara Shermund”

Pub Day For At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker

At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker is out today, after eight years in the making, including thousands of zoom meetings (kidding about the thousands of zoom meetings. I think there were only 241). It’s published by the good folks at Clarkson Potter, who allowed the photographer, Alen MacWeeney, the designer, Bob Ciano, and myself (as essayist) to appropriately celebrate the magazine’s artists as The New Yorker’s 100th birthday nears (February of 2025).

Within you’ll find a Foreword by The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen, and fifty-two New Yorker cartoonists profiled, from George Price, who began contributing to the magazine in 1929, through the likes of Jack Ziegler, Barbara Smaller, and Bruce Eric Kaplan, to a goodly number of more recent additions to the stable such as Liana Finck, Justin Sheen, Ellie Black, Akeem Roberts, and Ed Steed.

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Pub Day For Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life And Art Of Barbara Shermund

Also out today is this fine book about the late great Barbara Shermund. Ms. Shermund’s work and life story were in grave danger of drifting off into the sunset, until Judith Yaross Lee (Defining New Yorker Humor) and Liza Donnelly (Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists) began singing her praises. Ms. Shermund now receives this celebratory tome boasting a ton of her art, and text by Caitlin McGurk. It’s published by Fantagraphics.