There are a lot of fun Thurber factoids to be found in Edwin Bowden‘s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State University Press, 1968). Since I brought it home from Columbus, Ohio (I bought it in the Thurber House gift shop, of all places) I’ve gone to this book a zillion times for all sorts of Thurber-related issues that’ve come up.
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A Daily Shouts Excerpt From Steve Martin & Harry Bliss’s Wealth Of Pigeons Yesterday’s Daily Shouts featured an excerpt from Steve Martin & Harry Bliss’s upcoming cartoon collection, A Wealth Of Pigeons. Thinking about cartoonist collaborative efforts throughout The New Yorker‘s history, several others come to mind, especially the duo of Helen Hokinson and James Reid Parker, and later, Richard
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The passing of Jeopardy! host, Alex Trebek over this past tumultuous weekend caused me to seek the search box on The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Bank site. I was curious as to how many Jeopardy! drawings had appeared in the magazine. Surprisingly, fewer than a dozen matches came up that specifically addressed the show: Roz Chast’s Insomnia Jeopardy published December 8,
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The Cover A rarity this new issue: an “after” cover (aside from all the take-offs on Rea Irvin’s Eustace Tilley). The cover artist, Pascal Campion gives a shout-out to Mark Ulriksen’s November 2012 New Yorker cover, shown below left: Here’s what Mr. Ulriksen had to say about his cover back then. And here’s what The New Yorker‘s art editor, Francoise
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