When Tina Brown took over the editorship of The New Yorker, she brought in Art Spiegelman as a comics editor and began assigning work to various "narrative" cartoonists, among them Bill Griffith, Justin Green, Robert Crumb, Gary Panter, Spiegelman himself and others.

Those halcyon days were numbered, however, and eventually full-page comics ceased appearing in The New Yorker's pages. Here are some of Griffith's "cartoon-o-journalism" efforts that made it past Tina Brown's tempermental blue pencil (and some that didn't).

"CUBA - The Reality Tour" (7 pages, 1994) Commissioned but not published. Appears in Zippy Quarterly #10, 1995.

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CUBA 1

CUBA 2

CUBA 3

CUBA 4

CUBA 5

CUBA 6

CUBA 7

"PLANET ASPEN" (4 pages. Aspen, Colorado, 1/24/94 issue)

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ASPEN 1

ASPEN 2

ASPEN 3

ASPEN 4 (including Griffith's interview with Hunter Thompson)

"MIKE JUDGE, LIKE, GOES HOLLYWOOD" (1 page. Interview with the creator of "Beavis & Butt-Head", 3/21/94 issue) CLICK TO ENLARGE.

"VIRTUAL VEGAS" (4 pages. Las Vegas, Nevada, 7/11/94 issue)

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VEGAS 1 (Showgirl, Dora Liberace)

VEGAS 2 (Griffith interviews Siegfried & Roy)

VEGAS 3 (Griffith interviews George Carlin)

VEGAS 4 (Griffith interviews Tom Jones)

"RANDOM ACCESS" 1(1 page in two parts. Report from a star-studded New Yorker Hollywood party, 1994. Not used. Printed in the San Francisco Examiner Sunday magazine, 5/1/94)

"RANDOM ACCESS" 2 (second part)

"VERY, VERY JERRY" (1 page. Interview with Jerry Lewis, 7/24/95 issue) CLICK TO ENLARGE.

"IT'S MY PARTY" (1 page. Interviews with third party Presidential candidates, not used. Published in the Sunday Boston Globe, 10/27/96) CLICK TO ENLARGE.

"AFTER A FASHION" (1 page, 1996, not used for "Fashion Issue". Appeared in Zippy Quarterly #17, 1997)