Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons
Time to catch up with this week’s Daily Cartoonists & their cartoons:
Monday’s Daily… from Ellis Rosen, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016.
Tuesday’s Daily…from Mort Gerberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1965.
Wednesday’s Daily… from Sueryann Lee, who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2019.
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Personal History: Desk Moving, Pt.2
On Christmas Eve’s Spill post, “Desk Moving” I showed a photo of what I see to the left of my newly relocated desk. Today I’ll show you what I see directly ahead of me on the far (north wall). I’d show you what I see to my right, but my desk is up against a window — what I see looking that way is a street.
Clockwise, from the top left: An Art Young portrait of Alexander Woollcott (found in Young’s 1939 memoir, His Life And Times, 1939); A Gluyas Williams drawing (originally appeared in Robert Benchley’s From Bed To Worse, published in 1934. Also appeared on the cover of Inside Benchley, published in 1942, shown below. The drawing is accompanied by a letter from Gluyas Williams).
A proposed design by Johan Bull for The New Yorker’s Skyline column (undated, but likely late 1920s, early 1930s); A New Yorker drawing by I. “Izzy” Klein, appeared in the issue of June 19, 1926; A Roz Chast drawing (unpublished, 1978); above Ms. Chast’s drawing is a drawing by Nurit Karlin (a non-New Yorker drawing that appeared in TV Guide); bottom far left is Irving Penn’s great group photo of New Yorker cartoonists taken in 1947, originally published in Vogue, but also found in Brendan Gill’s Here At The New Yorker.
Way off to the right, snoozing in the sunlight, is our eldest cat. To his right are two more pieces hanging on a narrow wall.
The top piece is a newly acquired unpublished rough drawing (in pencil) by Richard Taylor, and below it is a BEK (Bruce Eric Kaplan) New Yorker drawing, published July 5, 2017.
Seeing these drawings (and Penn’s photograph) is my daily dose of history and inspiration. What you see on the walls may change in the not too distant future as I bring in other drawings. Eventually everyone in the collection has some hang time.
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Their A-Z Spill entry:
Art Young Born January 14, 1866, Illinois. Died December 29, NYC @ The Hotel Irving. An online biography. 1943. NYer work: 1925 -1933. The Art Young Gallery
Gluyas Williams (above left undated; right:1 975) Born, San Francisco, 1888. Died, Boston, Mass., 1982. One of the pillars of Harold Ross’s stable of artists, and one of Ross’s favorite cartoonists. His beautiful full page drawings were a regular feature in the magazine. Mr. Williams illustrated a number of Robert Benchley’s collections, providing the cover art as well as illustrations. NYer work: March 13, 1926 – Aug 25, 1951. Key collections: The Gluyas Williams Book ( Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1929), The Gluyas Williams Gallery (Harper, 1956). Website: http://www.gluyaswilliams.com/
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Johan Bull (photograph dated 1934, courtesy of the Bull family) Born c. 1894, Oslo. Died Stowe, Vermont, Sept. 1945. New Yorker work (cartoons): July 4, 1925 – Oct. 22, 1927 *his NYTs obit says he contributed to The New Yorker until 1930, perhaps the last three years he contributed spot drawings(?)
I. (“Izzy”) Klein Born Isidore Klein, Newark, New Jersey, October 12,1897. Died, 1986. His papers can be found at Syracuse University. New Yorker work, over 200 drawings from 1925 through 1937.
Roz Chast (pictured above. Photo by Bill Franzen) Born, Brooklyn, NY. New Yorker work: July 3, 1978 – . Key collections: Unscientific Americans (Dolphin/Doubleday, 1982), Theories of Everything ( Bloomsbury, 2006) Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2014). Website: rozchast.com/
Nurit Karlin (Photo taken at a Playboy holiday party, NYC, early 1990s). Born in Jerusalem, 1940. Died, Tel Aviv, April, 2019. New Yorker work: 1974 – 1988. Collection: No Comment (Scribner, 1978). For more on Karlin see pp 124 -130 of Liza Donnelly’s Funny Ladies : The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists and Their Cartoons (Prometheus Books, 2005).
Richard Taylor (self portrait from Meet the Artist) Born in Fort William, Ontario, Sept. 18, 1902. Died in 1970. NYer work: 1935 -1967. Collections: The Better Taylors ( Random House, 1944, and a reprint edition by World Publishing, 1945), Richard Taylor’s Wrong Bag (Simon & Schuster, 1961). Taylor also authored Introduction to Cartooning ( Watson -Guptill, 1947). From Taylor’s introduction: the “book is not intended to be a ‘course in cartooning’…instead, it attempts to outline a plan of study — something to be kept at the elbow to steer by.”
Bruce Eric Kaplan New Yorker work: 1991 – . Mr. Kaplan is also a television producer and writer. His writing and cartoon lives blended perfectly together in the classic Seinfeld episode, “The Cartoon”; Here’s his Wikipedia page.