The New Yorker at 100 – Previews
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About a month from now The New Yorker will be celebrating its centennial, the first issue cover dated February 21, 1925. Leading into that are anniversary festivities and observances already taking place.
For example…
The Society of Illustrators opened their Drawn From The New Yorker – A Centennial Celebration exhibit earlier this month and the held an opening reception on January 16th.
Cartoonist Liza Donnelly was there for that opening reception and declared it “a huge success, over 400 people came to celebrate 100 years of New Yorker art!” Liza curated the show of original art and prints.
Liza takes us on a half hour video tour of the exhibit covering two floors (stills above from the video).
Not surprisingly cartoonist Michael Maslin was there with Liza and he favors us with a number of still photos of New Yorker cartoonists attending the gala, below is a Stephen Nadler/Michael Maslin photo jam.
Michael Maslin also leads us to the New York Public Library’s year-long New Yorker exhibit that starts soon.
On February 22, 2025, A Century of The New Yorker will open at The New York Public Library, showcasing the history of The New Yorker from its launch in 1925 to present day and bringing to life the people, stories, and ideas that have defined the iconic magazine.
Founding documents, rare manuscripts, photographs, and timeless cover and cartoon art drawn from the Library’s rich holdings, along with artifacts from other renowned institutions, will feature in the dynamic exhibition, which will take visitors behind the scenes of the making of one of the United States’s most important magazines.
The City Life Org offers a listing of many highlights that will be featured at the NYPL exhibit.
Peripherally:
Frank Viva is a frequent New Yorker contributor whose work wittily captures the zeitgeist, but he is not acerbic. During President Trump’s first term, he tried pitching some political illustrations without success. Now with Trump 2.0 suggesting the annexation of Canada, Viva, a Canadian, is reconsidering how he can satirically comment on Trump once again.
He is candid about his struggles, and our chat below—featuring covers he has pitched to The New Yorker—sheds some light on how he goes about attempting to sell his graphic commentary.
Steven Heller at Print Mag interviews artist Frank Vivi.
In your many published New Yorker covers, you do not present yourself as a political artist. Do you have a secret (or not-so-secret) desire to be one?
It’s a secret because I haven’t had much success.Have you been encouraged to actually take to finish any of the covers you’re showing here?
Sometimes a call for ideas goes out by email that is sent to a group of artists requesting a sketch about a newsworthy story that is unfolding in real time. It can be a story…
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Courtesy of Fantagraphics, today we are pleased to share an excerpt from Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund by Caitlin McGurk. Below is McGurk’s selection from chapter 2, but first, a few words from Emily Flake’s foreword…
The Comics Journal offers a preview of Tell Me A Story Where The Bad Girl Wins about Barbara Shermund.
Shermund’s first contribution to the interior pages of the magazine appeared in the same issue as her second cover, October 3, 1925. For that issue and those that followed in the next few months, she contributed striking graphic spot illustrations placed randomly throughout the magazine and distinctly themed imagery to accompany department headings.
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