“The New Yorker At 100” Debuts On Netflix As of today, The New Yorker At 100 is available for home viewing. I’ve watched it through twice this morning and have a number of thoughts; I’m going to let them brew for a bit (and perhaps watch the film once more) before writing at any length about it. In the meantime,
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From 1953, this animated version of James Thurber’s “The Unicorn In The Garden” “The Unicorn In The Garden” was originally published in The New Yorker, October 21, 1939 (“Fables For Our Time – VII”). It was first collected in a book, James Thurber’s Fables For Our Time, in 1940. _____________________________________________________________________ Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December
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Auction Watch: Cartoons By Whitney Darrow, Jr., Gahan Wilson, Barney Tobey, and More Mike Lynch reports that Heritage Auctions has a number of original pieces of cartoon art going under the gavel. The offering includes New Yorker artists Whitney Darrow, Jr., Eldon Dedini, Larry Reynolds, Gahan Wilson, and Barney Tobey. See the pieces here. _______________________________________________________________ Now That’s A Cover! Here’s
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Bruno Pieroni, who is the 14th cartoonist added to the magazine’s colosseum of artists this year, and the 179th brought in since Emma Allen
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