Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title I don’t have a good sense of where most of my drawings come from. Mostly, they just show up, and I put ’em down on cheap paper. The above drawing does have a small bit of a past — at least the caption does. My mother was a fan of Frank Sinatra. While
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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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Many many years ago, before I began holding onto every New Yorker-centric thing that came my way, I gave my first edition copy of Thurber’s 1939 classic, The Last Flower to a friend (the friend who showed me the very first Thurber drawing I’d ever seen). Over the years I stayed away from re-acquiring a first edition (I did acquire
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