Wheeler, Chatfield, Donnelly, Chatfield, And More On Jules Feiffer
From The Comics Journal, February 3, 2025, “Remembering Jules Feiffer” —
a number of artists, including The New Yorker folks mentioned above, weigh in on Mr. Feiffer who passed away on January 17th of 2025.
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Rea Irvin’s The Smythes
From New York Review Comics, word of a forthcoming collection of Rea Irvin’s strip, The Smythes. Here’s some text from the social media announcement:
Rea Irvin’s A-Z Entry:
Rea Irvin (pictured above. Self portrait above from Meet the Artist) Born, San Francisco, 1881; died in the Virgin Islands,1972. Irvin was the cover artist for the New Yorker’s first issue, February 21, 1925. He was the magazine’s first art and only art supervisor (some refer to him as its first art editor) holding the position from 1925 until 1939 when James Geraghty assumed the title of art editor. Irvin then became art director and remained in that position until William Shawn officially succeeded Harold Ross in early 1952. Irvin’s last original work for the magazine was the magazine’s cover of July 12, 1958. The February 21, 1925 Eustace Tilley cover had been reproduced every year on the magazine’s anniversary until 1994, when R. Crumb’s Tilley-inspired cover appeared. Tilley has since reappeared, with other artists substituting from time-to-time. Number of New Yorker covers (not including the repeat appearances of the first cover every anniversary up to 1991): 163. Number of cartoons contributed: 261.
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Event Of Interest: Tommy Siegel In Conversation With Asher Perlman
Mr. Siegel began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2023; Mr. Perlman in June of 2021. Info on the poster below, and here.
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Event Of Interest: Exhibition / Reception For Nguyen Khoi Nguyen
Nguyen Khoi Nguyen began contributing to The New Yorker in August of 2023.
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: 25 West 43rd St.
Should you walking in midtown Manhattan, and pass by 25 West 43rd Street you’ll find the below plaque affixed to the building (walk through to West 44th and you’ll you find a matching plaque at the north entrance to the building).
From The New Yorker’s New York:
The New Yorker has moved four times in its history.
- 25 West 45th St The magazine began publishing here in 1925 and remained at this address until 1935, when it moved downtown to…
- 25 West 43rd St. This magazine stayed here the longest, from 1935 until 1991. It was here that Thurber wrote and drew on the walls (a fragment of wall bearing Thurber’s drawings from here was removed and has since been relocated at the magazine’s newer offices.
- 20 West 43rd St. Basically a move right across the street, just south and due east a few feet.
- 4 Times Square.
- 1 World Trade Center
Event Of Interest: Tommy Siegel In Conversation With Asher Perlman
Mr. Siegel began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2023; Mr. Perlman in June of 2021. Info on the poster below, and here.
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Event Of Interest: Exhibition / Reception For Nguyen Khoi Nguyen
Nguyen Khoi Nguyen began contributing to The New Yorker in August of 2023.
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: 25 West 43rd St.
Should you walking in midtown Manhattan, and pass by 25 West 43rd Street you’ll find the below plaque affixed to the building (walk through to West 44th and you’ll you find a matching plaque at the north entrance to the building).
From The New Yorker’s New York:
The New Yorker has moved four times in its history.
- 25 West 45th St The magazine began publishing here in 1925 and remained at this address until 1935, when it moved downtown to…
- 25 West 43rd St. This magazine stayed here the longest, from 1935 until 1991. It was here that Thurber wrote and drew on the walls (a fragment of wall bearing Thurber’s drawings from here was removed and has since been relocated at the magazine’s newer offices.
- 20 West 43rd St. Basically a move right across the street, just south and due east a few feet.
- 4 Times Square.
- 1 World Trade Center