The Chicagoan
| The Chicagoan
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| description | magazine |
| Frequency of publication | biweekly from June 1926 to July 1931, monthly from July 1931 to April 1935 |
| Sold edition | 20,000 copies |
| editor | Martin J. Quigley |
The Chicagoan was an American magazine that appeared from June 1926 to April 1935. It was modeled on The New Yorker and focused in its content on the cultural life of the city of Chicago . Each issue of The Chicagoan included articles on art, music, theater reviews, profiles of people and institutions, commentary on the local scene, as well as editorials and cartoons and original works.
In its heyday, the magazine had a circulation of more than 20,000 copies, but was forgotten after it was discontinued.
Only two complete sets of editions are known, one at the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago and the other at the New York Public Library . Cultural historian Neil Harris rediscovered the magazine and wrote a book about the magazine called The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age (published in 2008 by the University of Chicago Press ).
Authors
Marie Armstrong Hecht (1892-?) Was the first editor-in-chief of The Chicagoan . She was a writer and literary critic.
Richard & Florence Atwater, "Riq" (1892–1938), born in Chicago as Frederick Mond Atwater.
Artist
E. Simms Campbell (1908–1971) was the first African-American cartoonist of national importance.
Albert Carreno (1905–1964) was born in Mexico. As a cartoonist and caricaturist, he drew primarily stage and sports personalities for The Chicagoan in the late 1920s .
Nat Karson (1908-1954). The Swiss-born specialty was theatrical caricatures. After moving to New York, he created decorations and costumes for the Federal Theater Project and Orson Welles .
A. Raymond Katz (1895–1974), known by his pseudonym Sandor . Born in Hungary, Katz created both posters and other commercial art before becoming the cover artist for The Chicagoan .
Isadore Klein (1897–1986) was a magazine cartoonist, animator, sketcher, painter, and story writer. He worked u. a. for The New Yorker and The Chicagoan magazines . He also worked on a number of popular comic strips such as Krazy Kat , Betty Boop, and Popeye .
Boris Riedel was the author of the cover of the first edition of The Chicagoan . He was the magazine's artistic director for a while.
Web links
- Cover pages and other illustrations from The Chicagoan
- Sample pages (PDF; 7.2 MB) from The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age by Neil Harris
- Interview with Neil Harris on The Chicagoan (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Neil Harris, The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008), 1-27.