Dark Angels Note 179
Dearest Friends
Welcome back to our Friday Note – our weekly collection of writerly thoughts.
Observing
This week in 1925 the first edition of The New Yorker was published.
The magazine was founded by Harold W. Ross because he felt that in New York at that time there was “room for a new kind of funny, sophisticated metropolitan weekly”.
The New Yorker was originally sold for just 15 cents and, naturally, was only available as a printed publication. Since 2007, the magazine and its full archive has also been available online.
The magazine has seen contributions from many prominent writers and is celebrated for its cartoons – it even has a dedicated ‘New Yorker Cartoons’ Instagram account.
Reading
Sometimes the cartoons take on a life of their own. As was the case for ‘On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog’.
Read this article on artnet to find out how this cartoon of two dogs became the most reprinted in the magazine’s history and fetched the highest price ever at auction.
Creating
A witty one-line caption accompanying a comic sketch is a simple formula that’s seen across magazines, newspapers, and greetings cards.
Create your own cartoon with an accompanying caption.
Or, if drawing’s not your thing, try captioning a found image or photograph with a witty one-liner.