Frank Modell & Stan Hunt Help Sell Cars
It’s not unusual for New Yorker cartoonists work to appear in ads (does the name Charles Saxon ring a bell?) but what is unusual — at least I’ve never seen this before — is just sticking a cartoon over an ad (yes, like a stickie note) as we see in the two examples below.
On the left, a Frank Modell New Yorker drawing used in a 1971 Dodge Demon ad, and on the right, a Stan Hunt New Yorker drawing used in a 1971 Dodge Charger ad.
Frank Modell’s A-Z entry:
Frank Modell (photograph taken early 1990s) Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 6, 1917. Died, May 27, 2016, Guilford, Connecticut. NYer work: 1946 – 1997. Mr. Modell began his New Yorker career as assistant to the Art Editor, James Geraghty. He soon began contributing his cartoons (and cartoon ideas for others), with his first drawing appearing July 20, 1946. Besides his work for The New Yorker, he was a children’s book author and an actor (he appeared, most notably, in Woody Allen’s 1980 film, Stardust Memories). Key collection: Stop Trying To Cheer Me Up! (Dodd, Mead, 1978).
Stan Hunt’s A-Z entry:
Stan Hunt (self portrait from Best Cartoons of the Year 1947) Born February 6, 1912. New Yorker work: August 11, 1956 – May 28, 1990.
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A 1990 New Yorker Promotional Brochure
Here’s a fun New Yorker promotional brochure that recently found its way into the Spill‘s library.
Printed on fairly good paper, with a very tasteful Jasper Johns-ey cover design, it includes a number of now familiar contributors (Mark Singer, Ian Frazier, Alec Wilkinson) and a trio of cartoonists (with quotes!) including John O’Brien (photo by Anne Hall Elser).
And here’s the intro:
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Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons
Tuesday’s Daily Cartoonist: Caitlin Cass, who began contributing to The New Yorker in August of 2018, on cicadas.
Wednesday’s Daily Cartoonist: Maddie Dai, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017 on supply issues in Great Britain.