Robert Leighton’s Twenty Year Cartoon Retrospective
Robert Leighton, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2002, has been posting a drawing a day from each year he’s been with the magazine. You can see them all (so far) here on his Instagram account.
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Emma Allen And Roz Chast In Conversation
From The Art Students League, notice of a conversation billed as “A Serious Talk About Funny Cartoons,” between The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen, and the cartoonist, Roz Chast. All the information here
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Tina’s Version
On Ms. Brown’s Substack, Fresh Hell, she relays her view of her New Yorker world: “My Flashback On The New Yorker’s 100”
The fog of memory sometimes performs tricks. For instance here’s a passage from Ms. Brown’s post:
“…there were the other “old guard” writers whom I treasured. Far from disapproving of our changes, this group loved the new energy from the youth infusion. They included Roger Angell, the sublimely vivid baseball writer and fiction editor, John Updike, Lillian Ross, Brendan Gill…”
A different take on John Updike’s view of Ms. Brown’s New Yorker can be found in Adam Begley’s biography of John Updike:
“He [Updike] liked her…but he did not like what she was doing to the magazine. He considered her taste coarse, her redesign a kind of vandalism. The sober, dignified pages he was used to were suddenly ‘sharply angled,’ splashed with crassly provocative layouts, and freighted with sensational content. Brown brought photography into the magazine, gave the writers bylines instead of taglines, and printed letters to the editor…Worse, Updike worried that she was printing the work of writers who wouldn’t have made the grade in Shawn’s day…He longed for the days before ‘Tina’s barbarians’ sacked and pillaged the elegant magazine he’d fallen in love with.”