Peter Kuper Guests On The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Peter Kuper (upper left above), who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2011, joins the always fun Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast crew this week for Episode 255. You can hear it here.

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Now That’s An Album Of New Yorker Cartoons!

Every year, for the past three decades, I’ve returned to a place in Maine where the below copy of The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925 -1975 resides.

I love my annual Pine Tree State revisiting of this collection as it was my very first deep dive into a concentrated New Yorker cartoon “Album” of drawings.

Looking through the Album now, with the astonishing variety of styles, of sensibilities, of cartoon “worlds” presented, I’m reminded of what an amazing cartoon education it gave me.

Carmine Peppe, who handled the layout (as he handled the layout of the magazine itself back then) had such a great eye for balancing the art. No drawing was treated incidentally, whether in the space granted, or how it related to the other drawings surrounding it.

When the Album was published, I was a college kid in my early twenties (already into my fourth year of being rejected by The New Yorker, with a couple more years of rejection ahead of me). I felt it then, looking through the book (as I feel it today), that this is inspiring work.

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The Artists in the Album:

 

 

 

 

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