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...
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
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...
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...
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 ...
tom lehrer. he did a couple of nightclub performances at the hungry i, in san francisco, and then at the blue angel, in new york. tom was the lead act, and nichols and may were second, and i went every night. jules feiffer (cartoonist, who wrote the screenplay for carnal knowledge*...
It’s hard to find many people under 35--in other words, the most ardent moviegoers--who remember the original Addams Family, the deliriously ghoulish characters created by fabled New Yorker magazine cartoonist Charles Addams. So it seemed a bit odd reading “The Addams Family’s” publicity...
quizzes, humor pieces, crossword puzzles and the like. With a few exceptions, likeDorothy Parker’s writing forVanity FairandHarvey Wiley’sGood HousekeepingcolumnDr. Wiley’s Question-Box,that type of thing just didn’t exist. (Three was humor, but for the most part itwasn’t funny.) ...
"Cartoonist" is unlikely to be counted among professionspromising excitement or adventure. After...Tonguette, Peter