Françoise Mouly on Roz Chast’s new New Yorker cover and Bob Eckstein interviews Grant Snider. Roz Chast Block Printing Françoise Mouly calls it “block printing,” I have always called it “woodcuts,” I guess it is also called “wood engraving.” It there a difference? Anyway here is Roz Chast‘s New Yorker cover for March 30, 2026. […]
I wasn’t paying attention when I noted Emma Allen‘s article about Otto Soglow. It was only one small part of The New Yorker’s annual Cartoons & Puzzles edition for 2025.The highlight of the issue are the “comic strip” profiles of a half dozen former New Yorker cartoonists by current New Yorker cartoonists. Michael Maslin offers […]
Billy Ireland’s New Yorker Centennial Celebration! New Yorker Centennial Celebration! Join us on Saturday, March 1 for a special program celebrating the centennial of The New Yorker magazine and a reception for our new exhibit, See Anyone You Know? The New Yorker Cartoons and Covers of Edward Koren. This event is FREE and open to the public. No […]
Here is a roundup of articles celebrating the 100th Anniversary of The New Yorker’s publishing debut. We at The Daily Cartoonist featured all the editorial drawings and cartoons from that first issue.Others delved into the history of the magazine. Origins Literate in tone, far-reaching in scope, and witty to its bones, The New Yorker brought […]
New Yorker covers are fascinating enough that an article called “20 Iconic New Yorker Covers from the last 93 Years” can be at once disappointing and well worth your time.”Disappointing” in that only a half dozen are from more than 20 years ago, and it’s hard to believe that a little more digging in those […]
It is as if cartoonists were conspiring to see who could touch off my most off-topic rant.We’ll start with what is not only the best ‘toon of the day, but surely the least intended to set me off, this Cartoon Movement piece by Moroccan cartoonist Jalal Hajir on Brexit and the now-approved Scottish referendum.The cartoon brilliantly […]
Start with the personal one: Carmen is bailing out on her newspaper job over at Prickly City, and it’s clear that Scott Stantis knows the current state of the industry.When I told my boss I was quitting my job at a chain-owned daily, back in 2006, he congratulated me on my escape to a personally-owned […]
Candorville is close to being a political cartoon, in that Darrin Bell spends equal amounts of time provoking thought and telling jokes. Today, however, he is letting his geek flag fly, as he often does.And — unintentionally perhaps — proving that we will never invent time travel unless we completely and absolutely change our society first. […]
Francoise Mouly, art editor at the New Yorker and editor/compiler of the new book, Blown Covers, featuring art that never made the cover, has posted this strip, a 1993 collaboration between her husband, Art Spiegelman, and Maurice Sendak, who died yesterday.You can click on the picture for a larger version, and then click here to […]