N.M. Bodecker: Harper’s Magazine

Niels did cartooning and illustration work for Harper’s Magazine from 1953 until 1968, notably the regular column, After Hours.

Covers

Cover Illustration – Three Stars for Baedeker
11×8.5 in
April 1953

Cover Study Culture in California
11×8.5 in
January 1955

Cover Ink Culture in California
10.5×7.5 in
January 1955

After Hours

1950-1954

Our Little Bombshell
7×8.5 in
September 1953

Untouched by Human Feet
4×6 in
January 1954

Realism Revived
4.75×3.25 in
April 1954

A Lode of Bach
3.25×4 in
April 1954

Rich Uncle
4.25×2.5 in
April 1954

She Had Better Breeding Than I and She Knew It
6×4 in
July 1954

Worry, Worry, Worry
7.25×4 in
August 1954

Mix Master
5.5×5 in
December 1954

1955-1960

Hard Times for Soft Covers
7.5×7.5 in
February 1955

Champion City
4×6.5 in
September 1955

Bard in Boston
8×8.5 in
September 1957

Back to the Drawing Board
5×7 in
September 1958

Get In There And Lens
7.5×10.75 in
May 1958

Wine Bibbing
6×7 in
November 1958

The New Recordings
7.5×7.5 in
December 1958

Upheaval in Popular Music
8.25×10.5 in
May 1959

1961-1964

The Art of Theatre Criticism
7.5x12_. in
March 1960

A “Little Theatre” Goes a Long Way
5×5.5 in
May 1960

Drip and Hang Up to Dry
9×9 in
June 1960

Down-Easterner off to Europe
8.5×10.5 in
January 1961

“The Treatment” in Grand Rapids
6×15 in
January 1962

Montages
4.75×3 in
October 1962

The Case of the Fraudulent Dust Jacket
8.5×11 in
November 1962

Mediterranean Mosaic
5.5×7 in
April 1963

1965-1968

How to Get a Job as a “Swing Dancer” in a Hit Broadway Show
5.5×8 in
January 1965

Keeping Company with a Parakeet
6.75×7 in
May 1965

Goodbye to World’s Fairs
6×3.5 in
October 1965

Bonanza for Boston
6×5 in
February 1967

What Revolution in Men’s Clothes?
5.25×6 in
May 1967

Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow Reconsidered
4.5×5.75 in
August 1967

Fads and Faces
6×7.5 in
September 1967