P.C. Vey Interviewed On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Here’s the very latest episode of The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast…this one with guest, P.C. Vey. Enjoy! Mr. Vey began contributing to The New Yorker in 1993 (in the episode you’ll learn he was contributing ideas — Charles Addams’s name pops up — previous to his own drawings showing up in
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A Catalog Of Interest Back in the Fall of 1968, a truly fab exhibit of work by Ralph Barton, Miguel Covarrubias, and John Held, Jr. was held at the Providence, Rhode Island’s Museum of Art (the show later moved to the Art Gallery at SUNY, Potsdam, NY). The catalog, though small (7″ x 8 1/2″ and 83 pages) contains a
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A Statue For The Dog That Bit People It’s not every Thurber Thursday that sports a two day old breaking story, but here we go with one that has already made my day (and it’s only 6 am). From The Columbus Dispatch, August 17, 2021, “The cantankerous airedale bit nearly everyone, but Thurber dog Muggs is getting his due with
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A long overdue reorganization of a part of the Spill’s archives began yesterday. It began as any reorganization has to begin: with moving things (books mostly) from one place to another. The above were facing a wall on a metal revolving bookcase. I hadn’t seen some of them in awhile (the revolving bookcase does not easily revolve). The small book
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