Article Of Interest: “What’s So Funny About James Thurber?” When I first came across the title of this article by Holly Brubach that appeared in the November 1982 issue of Vogue, I thought, “Oh brother, here we go — another rethinking of Thurber’s place in American letters.” But once I got hold of and read the two page article (available
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I’ve always thought of John Updike as a sort of honorary New Yorker cartoonist. He was Thurber inspired early on in life (and mass media cartoons inspired as well). By the time he went to Harvard he aspired to become a New Yorker cartoonist. As he said in a PBS documentary: “I got into The New Yorker. I didn’t become James Thurber,
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Slideshow Of Interest: “Cartoon Highlights 1976-1985” The New Yorker has been celebrating its 100th birthday this year with decade-by-decade slideshows of “Cartoon Highlights.” Link here to see the latest (1976-1985). This one begins with a 1982 cartoon by Liza Donnelly (her first cartoon sold to The New Yorker, but it ran after the second one bought was published. Go figure).
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. One duo (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing appeared in the issue of
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