Today’s Daily Cartoon…And Yesterday’s
Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Victor Varnado on remember when. Mr. Varnado began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2019. Visit his website here.
Yesterday’s Daily: Amy Hwang, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010, on schooling at home.
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From The Archives: The Paris Review (Humor Issue) Fall 1995.
This is a really nice addition to any humor/cartoon library. I came across it online last week while searching for Spill material. Having forgotten I already owned it, I bought another copy(!).
The intro informs us that up to this issue, The Paris Review had never devoted an entire issue to humor before (or to any topic). I’m so glad they broke tradition. This issue came out the year Lee Lorenz’s Art Of The New Yorker was published — the cartoon content is linked to that book, and to Mr. Lorenz (Art Editor of The New Yorker from 1973-1993, Cartoon Editor from 1993-1997). He suggested the cartoonists who might be included. Each cartoonist contributed a piece, and wrote about it. Some of The New Yorker artists featured: Frank Modell, Edward Koren, Roz Chast, Arnie Levin, Lee Lorenz, Jack Ziegler, and George Booth.
I hadn’t remembered reading in Mr. Booth’s piece that he identified, by name, his famous English bull terrier: when the dog is a female in a cartoon, the name is Sue; when the dog is male, the name is Snarfie.
A favorite quote from Mr. Lorenz, who talks about why cartoonists do what they do: “One answer, among many, is the occasional self-revelation produced in the relentless attempt to transmute the awfulness of daily life into a redemptive chuckle.
Last but not least, I love the bonus feature: a Steinberg cover.