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 […]
By the time “Harold and the Purple Crayon” arrived on the scene, I was a semi-literate young man of five, and one who already knew the main character from poring through my parents’ collection of Barnaby. Different name, but it hardly mattered, because I hadn’t been able to read the words anyway. I knew he was […]
I think VIP — Virgil Partch — was the first cartoonist I could identify by style, which is to say, I think seeing his work is part of what made me, maybe about the time I was six or seven, hip to the idea that, when the pictures looked the same, they were drawn by […]