Monday Spill: An Interesting Layout from a 1935 New Yorker; Fave Over-The Weekend Photo…Asher Perlman Signs Preview Copies; More News...Karasik, Akeem Roberts, Ellis Rosen...

We’re in the second week of a double issue (July 7 & 14, 2025), so no new issue to thumb through. Drat! The next new issue, the issue of July 21st, will be out a week from today. With that in mind, today’s Spill will be a New Yorker cartoon variety pak.

An Interesting 90 Year Old New Yorker Page Layout

I ran into this the other day while time-traveling through a 90 year old copy of The New Yorker (July 20, 1935). My eyes went first to the Carl Rose winged woman and the man on the horse (I peripherally saw the objects to the left, but supposed they were Spot drawings). Only after looking at the woman, man, and horse, and trying to understand what was what there, did I glance over to see the three traffic lights. How unusual for the magazine to divvy up a drawing like this!

Carl Rose’s A-Z Entry:

Carl Rose Born, New York City; died, Rowayton, Ct., June 20, 1971, age 68. New Yorker work: 1925 – 1971. Collection; One Dozen Roses (Random House, 1946). Note: this collection contains essays by Rose on cartoon themes. Especially of interest is his essay concerning Harold Ross, “An Artist’s Best Friend is His Editor”. Carl Rose will forever be linked to E.B. White for the December 8, 1928 New Yorker cartoon of the mother saying to her child, “It’s broccoli, dear.” and the child responding, “I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.” The drawing was by Rose, the caption was adapted by White from Rose’s original idea (for a slighty expanded explanation go here). Rose also had a Thurber connection. In 1932, Rose submitted a drawing captioned, “Touche!” of two fencers, one of whom has just cut off the head of the other. Harold Ross ( according to Thurber in The Years With Ross) thinking the Rose version “too bloody” suggested Thurber do the drawing because “Thurber’s people have no blood. You can put their heads back on and they’re as good as new.” The drawing appeared December 3, 1932.

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Fave Over-The-Weekend Photo: Asher Perlman Signs Preview Copies

Asher Perlman was at the American Library Association conference getting a jump on publicity for his next cartoon collection, Hi, It’s Me Again, out September of this year. But but but…it seems to be already available:

Asher Perlman began contributing to The New Yorker in 2021.

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Karasik Pieces, New England Style

Paul Karasik has sent word that he has several pieces out in New England papers. Unfortunately, the piece appearing in The Boston Globe is now behind a pay wall, but here’s the other from the [Martha’s] Vineyard Gazette. (Mr. Karasik also gave us a heads-up about a piece set to appear July 27th in a non-New England paper, The New York Times.

Mr. Karasik began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. Visit his website here.

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Akeem Roberts, With A New Book, Will Be In Conversation With Ellis Rosen

Akeem Roberts began contributing to The New Yorker in 2019.

Ellis Rosen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016.

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New to me, even though it may have been “out there” for a while:“The New Yorker Business and Office Playing Cards”