Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…Maggie Larson And The Sturgeon King; Attempted Bloggery’s Stephen Nadler Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; New Books On The Horizon… John
Fave Photo OF The Week: Maggie Larson And The Sturgeon King
Maggie Larson, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, posted this photo on social media the other day.
We see Ms. Larson standing with The Sturgeon King himself. Ms. Larson is holding an original New Yorker drawing that originally appeared in the December 24, 2024 issue.
Visit Maggie Larson’s website here.
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Attempted Bloggery’s Stephen Nadler Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Attempted Bloggery‘s Stephen Nadler is the latest guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Listen here (it’s episode #189 for those keeping track).
Mr. Nadler and the co-hosts discuss, among other things, the “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” exhibit currently up at The Society of Illustrators.
— Above, clockwise from the top left: co-hosts Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius, and Mr. Nadler.
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Out this March from New Yorker cover artist and cartoonist, John Cuneo, Good Intentions (Fantagraphics). You can order a signed copy here from The Woodstock, NY indy bookstore, Golden Notebook.
Mr. Cuneo began contributing to The New Yorker in 2009.
Visit Mr. Cuneo’s website here.
…And, out September of this year from Asher Perlman, Hi, It’s Me Again (Andrews McMeel).
Visit Mr. Perlman’s website here. Mr. Perlman began contributing to The New Yorker in 2022.
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Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary: Wallace Morgan
Leading up the the big 100th anniversary issue, the Spill will be spotlighting the cartoonists who contributed to the magazine’s debut issue.
Above is Wallace Morgan’s double page spread from the first issue. According to Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times Henry Holt, 1995, p. 331). Mr. Morgan was one of three artists Harold Ross “trusted and felt comfortable with.” (Rea Irvin and and Ralph Barton were the other two).
Wallace Morgan Born, New York City, 1873; Died, May 1948. From a NYTs article, Jan 27, 1949 “Trio of Exhibitions Marks Week in Art”: “Morgan made his fame especially with his reporting for The New York Herald, with his popular ‘Fluffy Ruffles,’ his illustrations for Harper’s, Scribner’s and The Century; his Saturday Evening Post illustrations of P.G. Wodehouse.” New Yorker work: 1st issue, February 21, 1925 – 1946. Link to Morgan’s Society of Illustrator’s 1977 Hall of Fame Inductee page: www.societyillustrators.org/Awards-and-Competitions/Hall-of-Fame/Past-Inductees/1977–Wallace-Morgan.aspx Morgan’s Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Morgan (the Society of Illustrators and the Wiki post disagree on his birthdate.