The New Yorker covers: October 16, 1965

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.

Charles E. Martin
(covers untitled until February 1993)

And now, a few few words from . . . William Shakespeare

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

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

"First Touch of Autumn," 1898, William Merritt Chase 

Movie Posters, 1929: Two adults, please, and a large popcorn!

Today in the history of the American comic strip: September 30

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.

9.30.1968: Gary Trudeau’s Bull Tales, the precursor of Doonesbury, appears in the Yale Daily News while Trudeau is an undergraduate there.

9.30.2001: George Gately, the creator of Heathcliff, dies in Ridgewood, New Jersey, at 72. Launched in 1973, Heathcliff remains in print.

 

9.30.2022: The United States Postal Service releases a sheet of 20 stamps featuring characters from the Peanuts comic strip, in honor of creator Charles M. Schulz’s birth in 1922. The strip ran from 1950 to 2000, the year Schulz died, although it has continued in reruns.

Heathcliff

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: September 22, 1956

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.

Charles E. Martin
(covers untitled until February 1993)

And now, a few words from . . . Helen Keller

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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

"The Parasol," 1777, Francisco Goya

Movie Posters, 2013: Two adults, please, and a large popcorn