One of the pleasures of this cartoonist’s life is receiving a new cartoon anthology in the mail, and then sitting with it at my work area (thus the cartoon fragment at the top of the accompanying photo), and paging through cover-to-cover (hey, it’s not like sitting down with The Tale Of Two Cities — we’re talking a half hour, tops,
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Rewind Wednesday: Thurber On The Cover Of Newsweek
Newsweek’s Thurber Cover Story In July of 1951, TIME put Thurber on its cover — it’s the cover most Thurber biographies mention. Newsweek’s Thurber cover, out six years later, is rarely mentioned. Thinking about it this morning, I dug out the sole bound volume of Newsweek in the Spill‘s library (acquired, obviously, because it contains
Read moreThurber’s “Mile And A Half Of Lines” Launched; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon: More Spills: …Graphic Mueller Reports…Liza Donnelly On Compassion
Thurber’s “Mile And A Half Of Lines” Launched This must-have book takes wing today with an event in Thurber’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio. Read about it here. Related: A Thurber piece in the CSM, July 11, 2019, “The not-so-secret life of James Thurber” [full disclosure: both my wife, Liza Donnelly, and I contributed to A Mile and a Half of
Read moreCase for Pencils Spotlights George Booth Documentary Filmmakers; More On Thurber’s Mile And A Half Of Lines; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Colin Tom
Check out Jane Mattimoe’s latest Case For Pencils. She interviews the filmmakers now working on Drawing Life, the “partly animated film” about George Booth. ___________________ More on…A Mile and a Half of Lines: The Art of James Thurber A review copy — in pdf — of the upcoming Thurber title shown above has reached the Spill‘s headquarters. Michael Rosen, who
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