From Michael Shaw, The Night The TV Talked Back From Michael Shaw, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999, The Fall Of The House Of Thurber — this piece from the Mizzou Magazine Winter 2022 in which Mr. Shaw, who has happily embraced a lifelong case of Thurberitis, recalls a restless night at The Thurber House in Columbus,
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Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Ellis Rosen & Emily Flake New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw, interview their colleague Ellis Rosen in the latest episode of The Cartoon Pad. Listen here. Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999, and Mr. Rosen in 2016. _____________________________________________________________ And over on the Cartoon Caption Contest
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According to Harper’s, “The Future, If Any, Of Comedy… or, where do we non-go from here” published in its December 1961 issue is “believed to be the last piece Mr. Thurber wrote.” As you see in the scan below, it first appeared in London, in The Times Literary Supplement. It appeared on US newsstands via Harper’s the month Thurber
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Two New Podcasts: Chris Weyant on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast and Michael Maslin On The Cartoon Pad Chris Weyant is the latest guest on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast, hosted by Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, and Paul Nesja. Mr. Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. And on The Cartoon Pad, I
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