Summertime … and the Shopping Is Easy
While the mercury rises outside, create a haven inside! Through Friday, July 2, at 11:59 p.m. EST, save 20% on all prints at The New Yorker Store when you enter EASY20 at checkout. Save on prints of your favorite New Yorker cartoons and covers, and bring a breath of fresh air to your walls this summer. Start shopping now!
The 2011 New Yorker Desk Diary Has Arrived
They’re finally here: The 2011 New Yorker Desk Diary is now available for purchase at the New Yorker Store. Organize your day with a calendar full of hilarious New Yorker cartoons. Book a business dinner in no time flat with the Desk Diary’s New York City restaurant list, or play concierge for your out-of-state colleague using the hotel directory.
Planning shouldn’t feel so much like work, and with this sleek and smart desktop companion, it doesn’t have to. Whether you’re new to the Desk Diary or have carried one for years, you’ll get a smile out of every page you turn.
The 2011 New Yorker Desk Diary is available in six different colors, including this year’s newest additions: Peacock Green, Forest Green, and White Gold. Order yours today!
Visit the Store and Save Through Memorial Day!
"No problem, B.J. I can talk and baste at the same time."
Welcome back summer the right way with the New Yorker Store‘s annual Memorial Day sale! Now through 11:59 p.m. EST on Monday, May 31, save 20% on any purchase (excluding licensing, original and commissioned art, and executive gifts) at the New Yorker Store when you enter REMEMBER at checkout. Enjoy the sun, and the savings!
By George Booth for the March 12, 1979 New Yorker cover.
Longtime New Yorker cartoonist George Booth will receive this year’s Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award at the National Cartoonists Society’s 64th Annual Reuben Awards. This year’s ceremony, dubbed “Reubens on the Hudson,” will be held in Jersey City overlooking the Hudson River on May 29. Booth, 83, was previously awarded the Society’s Gag Cartoon Award in 1993.
Booth’s famously disgruntled cats and bull terriers, domestic squabbles, and little old ladies have graced the pages of The New Yorker for more than 40 years. In 1999, The Essential George Booth, a compendium of Booth’s cartoons edited by former cartoon editor Lee Lorenz, was released.
For more information on his life and works, read an interview with George Booth on the Cartoon Bank blog, and see our previous story about Booth’s longest caption competition with Henry Martin.
Happy Cinco De Mayo!
It’s Cinco De Mayo and we have a sizzling hot sale you can’t afford to miss. Today only, until 12am EST earn 25% off all merchandise at The New Yorker Store (excluding licensing, original and commissioned art, and executive gifts) by entering the promo code CINCO25 at checkout. Enjoy!
Over the coming months, the Westport Arts Center (WAC) in Westport, Connecticut will host a series of exhibitions examining the art of storytelling through drawing. “Divine Comedy,” a showcase of works by the indomitable Roz Chast and the inscrutable R. Crumb – both masters of putting to paper our most harrowing and humorous inner anxieties – is the first exhibit in the series and will be up at the WAC from this Thursday, April 1, to May 30, 2010. Visit the WAC for the opening reception on Thursday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
A collection of eggs featuring colorful Chast cartoons
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After a recent cleaning of the New Yorker area of the Archive, we unearthed some fantastic black and white photographs of some of The New Yorker’s finest.
All of these photographs are by Alen MacWeeney, whose lengthy career has included work for The New Yorker, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, and many others. At the moment, we don’t have any information about where these photos were published (if at all), or when they were taken.
George Price, perched on the edge of an armchair
"Play 'Misty' for me."
Original Art Focus: Stanley Wadsworth Reynolds
Illustrator Stanley Wadsworth Reynolds, circa 1915-1920
Unsigned cover submitted to The New Yorker
This month, we’re highlighting works in our original art collection by illustrator Stanley Wadsworth Reynolds, pictured above.
At a young age, Reynolds lost his right arm in a horse-drawn trolley incident in downtown Detroit. He eventually came to New York City, where he worked as a successful freelance artist in the 1920s. Read more…
A New Yorker Love Story
By Anatol Kovarsky
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As Valentine’s Day approaches, I thought I’d share with our readers a real-life love story between a New Yorker artist and his wife, one that demonstrates that fairy-tale romances do still happen.
I had the recent pleasure of enjoying a three and a half hour lunch with my favorite nonagenarian, New Yorker cover artist Anatol Kovarsky, and his beautiful wife, the talented actress Lucille Patton. We dined with a nice couple who is adding an original 1966 Kovarsky New Yorker cover to their collection.
I brought color printouts of Anatol’s past New Yorker covers (39 total), and we discussed several in detail. He was quite talkative, and loved telling stories about his former art editors and the inspiration for many of his covers. Read more…
Buy the 1/25 New Yorker Cover, Contribute to Haiti Relief Efforts
While not created as a response to the destruction of the recent earthquake in Haiti, the 2007 painting “The Resurrection of the Dead,” particularly in the ghostly guards occupying the doorway (called guede, in Haitian myth) and the surrounding wall inlaid with pairs of gazing eyes, transmits to the viewer an appropriate sense of somber regard for the passing of souls.
“The Resurrection of the Dead”, by Haitian painter Frantz Zephirin, was featured on the January 25, 2010 cover of The New Yorker. The magazine will donate all profits from print sales of this cover to Partners in Health, which provides health care and other services in Haiti and has taken a leading role in earthquake relief efforts.
