We return toE.B. Whiteand his musings regarding actress and singerHelen Kane(1904–1966), who filed a $250,000 (equivalent to nearly $5 million in 2021) infringement lawsuit against cartoonistMax Fleischerand Paramount Studios, claiming that the popular Betty Boop character was based on Kane’s...
The Farther Side For nearly 30 years, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has taken her field to absurd heights by focusing on ordinary schlubs.JAMES SULLIVAN
White also noted a new craze that had originated around the same time as the birth ofThe New Yorker… TWO ACROSS…Max SchusterandRichard Simonof Simon & Schuster, with their first crossword book, 1924. (americanbusinesshistory.org) White concluded with these parting words, tinged with world-w...
John Donohue is an editor and cartoonist for the New Yorker magazine. He discovered a new job for himself when he became a father for the first time. “I started cooking a lot for my wife and the baby. It was a lot of fun,” he said. Now Mr. Donohue has published a book called...
An appreciation by his friend the writer and cartoonist Carlo de Fornaro (1871-1949), also Sephardic perhaps (much like my friend Arthur Fornari), places Casseres on the staff of the Sunday edition of El Diario, the Spanish-language newspaper that still exists. He contributed to Alfred Stiegli...
“There’s something about their delicate nature that crazily appeals to me,” says New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Several years ago, she became interested in egg painting and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters. “I’ve broken eg...
At some point, xkcd cartoonist Randall Munroe is going to put out a book focusing on his map-related cartoons, isn’t he. The latest in his “Bad Map Projection” series (previously:All South Americas,Time Zones,Liquid Resize) isThe Greenland Special, an equal-area projection except for ...
everything was thought of. you go down in the morning to the kitchen and there’s a new york times for every person in residence in case you want your crossword. you look in the bathroom and everything you could ask for except a hypodermic needle is there for you—it’s unbelievable....
The Old Ways –The New Yorker David Remnick Drew Dernavich Paul Noth Bob Eckstein Ben Schwartz Matt Diffy Will McPhail More Longform Everything has to be Interesting The Mix of Stand-Up Comedy & Information Presenting Yourself to the World ...
"Cartoonist" is unlikely to be counted among professionspromising excitement or adventure. After...Tonguette, Peter