Paul Noth Accepts The 2025 Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art
New Yorker cartoonist, Paul Noth was presented with the 2025 Thurber Prize for American Cartoon Art last night at festivities in midtown Manhattan. The Thurber Prize for Writing was awarded to Alexandra Petri for Alexandra Petris’ US History: Important American Documents.
It was a doubly great night for Mr. Noth, who announced that, just hours before, he’d inked a deal for his first collection of cartoons. The Spill congratulates Mr. Noth!
This was the second Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art. The first recipient was Roz Chast, who received the award last year in Thurber’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
— photos: Liza Donnelly
________________________________________________________
James Thurber’s A-Z Entry:
James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”
Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. Website