Baby New Year graduated from newspaper cartoons to magazine covers in 1906, when the Saturday Evening Post published its first holiday illustration of a toddler by artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker.

Starting in 1907 and ending in 1943, The Saturday Evening Post’s final edition of the year would feature an illustrated baby on the cover.Because of how widespread and voraciously read the ...

Baby New Year then became secularized by newspaper cartoonists in the 19th century, most notably with a series of covers in the The Saturday Evening Post by Joseph Christian Leyendecker from 1907 ...

There’s so much more to Baby New Year than a cute cartoon figure. ... J.C. Leyendecker drew depictions of Baby New Year for the covers of the Saturday Evening Post.

Baby New Year will spend the next year growing and learning before passing on his wisdom as Father Time on January 1 ... and when the Saturday Evening Post put him on the cover wearing a top ...

Baby New Year graduated from newspaper cartoons to magazine covers in 1906, when the Saturday Evening Post published its first holiday illustration of a toddler by artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker.

Baby New Year graduated from newspaper cartoons to magazine covers in 1906, when the Saturday Evening Post published its first holiday illustration of a toddler by artist Joseph Christian Leyendecker.