A few Thurber things gathered here this last Thurber Thursday of the year… First up is Attempted Bloggery on a recent interesting Thurber original sale… “Hiding From The Dog Walker: James Thurber Preliminary Cover Art.” ______________________________________________________________ A UK Last Flower To the left is The Last Flower cover we’re used to seeing in the United States (published
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Attempted Bloggery On An Auctioned Arno It’s always fun to see original New Yorker art up for grabs, especially something from one of the grand masters. A Spill favorite site, Attempted Bloggery tells us about a recent sale of the 1964 Peter Arno drawing shown here. Read it here. __________________________________________________________ Catching Up With…A New Yorker State Of
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library For decades a small book (5 1/4″ x 7″), published in 1932, Another Ho Hum: More Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”, has sat on the Spill‘s shelf without its predecessor (published the year before) Ho Hum: Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”. This week (finally!) the 1931 volume has joined its partner. New Yorker history
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Christopher Weyant Guests On The Cartoon Pad New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw welcome their colleague, Chris Weyant on the latest Cartoon Pad. Listen here. Visit Chris Weyant’s website here. _____________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On A Puzzling Charles Addams Original Stephen Nadler in hot pursuit of the origin of a recently auctioned Addams Family original. Read it here.
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