Sunday Reading A rainy and windy day drive yesterday through winding rolling roads to visit my favorite used bookstore, Rogers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York. On the way, I came across not one, but two large snapping turtles, side-by-side, planning to cross a country road. Took it as a sign (a sign of what I don’t know). At Rogers
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Alan Dunn, Cartoonist, Fine Artist A social media post by The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of Modern Art alerted me to a side of Alan Dunn I’d skirted over for years — that he was an accomplished watercolorist outside of the work he did for The New Yorker (where he contributed 9 fabulous covers between 1943 and 1963, not to
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Bruce Eric Kaplan Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Bruce Eric Kaplan (BEK) is the latest guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Listen to it here (It’s episode # 204 for those keeping track). Mr. Kaplan, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991, appears in the upper left of this screenshot.
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Two Unusual Covers I check Ebay everyday looking (hoping) for something Thurber I’ve never seen before. Yesterday two books showed up. Both have unusual covers (unusual in that I never would’ve guessed they had anything to do with a Thurber book). A coincidence: all of the titles shown were written by Thurber, but not illustrated by him (his eyesight was
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