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Recent Cartoon Library Additions
Two recent additions to our Cartoon Library: Above is a 1949 Dell paperback by the late great Whitney Darrow, Jr.,who died in 1999 at age 89. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1933. I have...
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Roth
Philip Roth, who celebrates his 80th birthday today, was first published in The New Yorker the issue of March 14, 1959, with his story, “Defender of the Faith” causing an immediate stir (see the...
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James Stevenson’s Secret Job at The New Yorker
If you pick up a copy of veteran New Yorker cartoonist, cover artist, and Talk of the Town contributor James Stevenson’s latest book, The Life, Loves and Laughs of Frank Modell, you’ll find...
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Astaire Cartoonists vrs Kelly Cartoonists
Someone once said that the greatest difference between Fred Astaire’s dancing and Gene Kelly’s dancing is that you could see Gene Kelly’s sweat. Pauline Kael, writing in The New Yorker in...
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Cartoon Life 50 Years Ago: New Yorker Cartoonists’ Paperback Collections
Before my recent interview with Dana Fradon, I did some research — as much as the internet allowed, which wasn’t a heck of a lot — and ran into this first collection of his from 1961. My copy arrived...
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Exhibit: “Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport”
From The Westport Historical Society webpage: Between 1925 and 1989, 16 New Yorker artists living in and around Westport-Weston produced a remarkable 761...
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New Yorker’s Golden Age of Art Celebrated in Westport, Connecticut
(Above: Charles Addams at the wheel, with James Geraghty, The New Yorker‘s Art Editor from 1939 through 1973. South Hampton, 1947) For those wanting to bathe in the glow of New...
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Westport New Yorker Cover Artists Bios Continued
As promised, here are three more of the eighteen short biographies from the Westport Historical Society exhibit, Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport. My thanks again to the WHS for allowing these...
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“The New Yorker Family Reunion Panel” at Westport Historical Society; Liana...
“The New Yorker Family Reunion Panel” featuring children of Golden Age New Yorker artists, Alice Harvey, Perry Barlow, Edna Eicke, Arthur Getz and Whitney Darrow, Jr., Saturday, April 12th at The...
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My Telly Savalas
By July of 1977, when I cracked open a brand new sketchbook, I’d already filled 38 others with drawings that had yet to connect with The New Yorker‘s Art Editor, Lee Lorenz;...
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Whitney Darrow Drawings at Princeton
From graphicarts (Princeton University), “Graphic Arts Collection: Whitney Darrow Jr” The post Whitney Darrow Drawings at Princeton appeared first on Inkspill.
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