The New Yorker covers: March 5, 1966

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 . . . Thomas Carlyle

Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.

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

"Two Towers, New York," 1913, Bernhard Gutmann

Movie Posters, 2025: Two adults, please, and a large popcorn!

Today in the history of the American comic strip: March 5

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.

3.5.1908: Bob Dunn is born. In addition to his own strips, he worked on Jimmy Hatlo’s Little Iodine and They’ll do It Every Time. He was named 1975 Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year by the National Cartoonists Society.
 
3.5.1934: Frank V. Martinek debuts Don Winslow of the Navy, showcasing the adventures of a young naval officer. A Sunday page premiered the following year.

3.5.1974: Roland Burton Hedley III makes his first appearance in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury, which went into syndication in 1970.

3.5.2018: Soup to Nutz, a strip about a working-class family that launched in 2000, goes into reprints. It was canceled two months later.

 

Doonesbury

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: January 25, 1958

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 Addams
(covers untitled until February 1993)

And now, a few words from . . . Charlie Chaplin

In the end, everything is a gag.