December 15

I can't be on the internet until late in the day on Wednesday—so if you'll pardon me for premature publication, I'm posting up the New Yorker covers, for December 15, the evening before . . . like right now. See you again on Thursday morn.

This gatefold spread cover for the cartoon issue is a pretty cool office party, reminiscent of Wally Wood's Mad Magazine cartoon office parties.

Wonderful

Staying with the always wonderful New Yorker covers, let's use the cover below by the wonderful Owen Smith as a segue between Halloween witches and Halloween pumpkins:

Below, the wonderful children's book illustrator William Joyce:

Below, the wonderful William Steig:

Below, the wonderful Charles Addams:

Below, the wonderful George Booth:

Below, the wonderful Warren Miller:

Below, the wonderful Peter de Seve, with a wonderful tribute to New York's finest, just a month after their darkest hour:

Below, not a New Yorker cover, and no punkins, but entitled Trick or Treat, again by the wonderful Peter de Seve: