The New Yorker covers: July 30, 1927

Over the years, there have been many magazines whose covers have featured the work of highly talented artists and illustrators. But probably no magazine has had more varied and memorable covers, over a longer period of time, than The New Yorker, which was founded in 1925.

Ilonka Karasz
(covers untitled until February 1993)

And now, a few words from . . . Thomas Henry Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

"What is art but a way of seeing?" Saul Bellow

Untitled, 1975, Jasper Johns

Movie Posters, 1926: Two adults, please, and a large popcorn!

Today in the history of the American comic strip: February 18

American cartoonists and writers may not have invented the comic strip, but some argue that the comics, as we know them today, are an American creation. Clearly, the United States has played an outsize role in the development of this underappreciated art form.

2.18.1924: Edgar Martin transforms an earlier comic into Boots and Her Buddies, a strip about a young woman and her social life, which ran until 1969.

2.18.1931: Johnny Hart, the creator of B.C. and co-creator (with Brant Parker) of The Wizard of Id, is born in Endicott, New York. He received a Newspaper Comic Strip award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1967, and again in 1989.

  

Most of the information listed here from one day to the next comes from two online sites -- Wikipedia, and Don Markstein's Toonopedia -- as well as 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics, edited by Maurice Horn. Note that my focus is on American newspaper comic strips (and the occasional foreign strip that gained popularity in the United States). Thus, comic books and exclusively online comics are not included here.

The New Yorker covers: March 18, 2024

The New Yorker isn’t Sports Illustrated, of course. But a fair number of sports, from basketball and baseball to golf and hockey, have graced the magazine's covers in one form or another since its founding in 1925. 

Peter de Sève
"Downhill"

And now, a few words from . . . Plato

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.