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 […]
Otto Soglow’s New Yorker Spot ArtNew Yorker cartoon editor Emma Allen waxes wonderfully over the magazine’s Otto Soglow spot art. The New Yorker doesn’t easily let go of the old stuff. Recently, our copy department retired the hyphen we’d kept in “in-box” for longer than anyone should keep anything in an inbox. But “teen-ager” clings […]
Sadie Hawkins DayNovember means Sadie Hawkins Day and Lesley Kennedy at History.com writes of the whys and wherefores. “I would always begin my stories with ‘What if…?’” Capp once said, according to Al Capp: A Life to the Contrary by Michael Schumacher and Denis Kitchen. “What if there were a special day in Dogpatch in […]
So there were a few Elvis sightings that came across my feed among the No Kings protests, though Jeff Weigel of The Sunday Phantom fame went with a different King. Jeff went with Jack “King” Kirby art from 1966. Ann Telnaes offered her cartoons as images for signs (as did Liza Donnelly and Steve Brodner). […]
Fowl Language starts off the day with a cartoon I like, even though it’s directed at people like me.I don’t like IMs and I’m certainly not very good at texting and the two factors are not unconnected. If I enjoyed it, I’d do it more often and then I’d be better at it.But I don’t, so […]
While I saw my first “Don’t wish me ‘Happy Holidays'” Facebook graphic two weeks ago, now they’re really starting to pop up.Clay Bennett is right, of course: We have all these holidays at the same time of year because it gets really dark and cold, and we need to celebrate the fact that, from that […]