Summer Pierre’s Nod to Helen Hokinson
Summer Pierre, who has contributed to The New Yorker‘s (online) Culture Desk since 2018, is offering a booklet of 20 cartoons inspired by the late great Helen Hokinson’s work. Ms. Pierre had this to say about the booklet on Instagram:
The Cartoonists, God Bless ‘Em! 20 cartoons about the comics life all drawn hastily from the work of the great Helen E. Hokinson!
Below left: Ms. Pierre’s booklet cover, and to the right, Ms. Hokinson’s cover for her 1950 collection, published posthumously.
Above left: Summer Pierre’s take-off on a Hokinson drawing (right) from The Ladies God Bless ‘Em! It originally appeared in The New Yorker May 18, 1946
Link her to see some sample pages from the Pierre booklet.
Helen Hokinson’s A-Z Entry:
Helen Hokinson Born, Illinois, 1893; died, Washington, D.C., 1949. New Yorker work: 1925 -1949, with some work published posthumously. All of Hokinson’s collections are wonderful, but here are two favorites. Her first collection: So You’re Going To Buy A Book! (Minton, Balch & Co, 1931) and what was billed as “the final Hokinson collection”: The Hokinson Festival (Dutton & Co., 1956). According to a New Yorker document produced during Harold Ross’s editorship (1925-1951) rating their artists, Ms. Hokinson and Peter Arno occupied a special category unto themselves above all others.