The Singular Wit of One of the New Yorker’s First Women Cartoonists

Barbara Shermund’s single-panel cartoons, drawn with a seemingly off-the-cuff fluidity of line and expression, came to define the magazine’s sense of humor.

The Singular Wit of One of the New Yorker’s First Women Cartoonists
“I’m too repressed, I guess.” “Yeah, me too!” from the New Yorker, August 6, 1927 (all images public domain, scans Izzy DeSantis/Hyperallergic)