Lemurian Congress

Having -- like most of the rest of the country -- concluded that the newly-born depression was no big deal, The New Yorker, managed to virt...

During 1930, the cigarette manufacturers continue to aim their advertisements at the Gay Young Things. It was a market that Murad had long c...

From the September 27, 1930 issue of The New Yorker, here's "Anachronism," written by a poetess with the rather unpoetic name ...

When I say repeatedly that the early New Yorker magazine didn't usually tackle serious subjects, I was obviously lying, because here is ...

(From the June 14, 1930 issue of The New Yorker, by Art Young )

The P. Lorillard Company advertised these "little cigars" with an amusing ad campaign. While the name "Between the Acts"...

The New Yorker panned this book, but it sounded so interesting that I couldn't resist finding a copy: "God's Country: A Short H...

(In reference to Reuben's practice of naming sandwiches after Broadway stars..."The Eddie Cantor Chicken Club," etc. The arti...

Everybody needs a great cartoon on a Friday morning. (The cartoon -- from December 28, 1929 -- by Leonard Dove, a frequent contributor of co...

"Oh the rent--the rent! What about my career !" (It's by William Crawford Galbraith, who did a lot of artwork for The New York...

This episode of "Dr. Seuss and Flit" is a bit unusual, because it comes in comic strip form. Have you noticed that comic axes alwa...

(By the always-odd Peter Arno).

Here's the one from the June 22, 1929 issue of The New Yorker. Note the ubiquitous presence of "The Cat in the Capotain." I...

(From the June 22, 1929 New Yorker, by John Reynolds)

The New Yorker, May 12, 1929. The artist was John Reynolds. He created a real flurry of cartoons for the magazine between 1928 and 1930, but...

From the March 30, 1929 issue of The New Yorker: I don't blame the confirmed bachelor's anger because I have seen Erasure's vide...

From the July 14, 1928 issue of The New Yorker: We now know Dr. Seuss was inspired by the same drug the "Betty Boop" cartoonists w...

Hmmm. There are a few things to be said about this June 30, 1928 advertisement from The New Yorker. First, there was simply no escaping this...