Paul Noth Accepts The 2025 Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art New Yorker cartoonist, Paul Noth was presented with the 2025 Thurber Prize for American Cartoon Art last night at festivities in midtown Manhattan. The Thurber Prize for Writing was awarded to Alexandra Petri for Alexandra Petris’ US History: Important American Documents. It was a doubly great night for Mr.
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Jason Chatfield Is The Latest Guest on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast celebrates its 200th episode. Jason Chatfield, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, is on hand for the festivities. Listen here. — Photo: clockwise from top left…co-host Nicole Chrolavicius, co-host Paul Nesja, Jason Chatfield, co-host Vin Coca, and co-host Beth Lawler.
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Hearty congratulations to my New Yorker colleague, Paul Noth, who will receive the Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art tomorrow night in New York City. Liza Donnelly and I will have the honor of presenting the award. Mr. Noth began contributing to The New Yorker in 2004. Here’s his first cartoon in the magazine, from the issue of October 18,
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Now That’s A Cover! Leave it to Rea Irvin to create the magazine’s first two-way cover. Of his 179 covers this is one of the most unusual (not counting his very first, of course — you know: the magazine’s debut issue featuring the fellow we later came to know as Eustace Tilley). It’s worth remembering that Irvin, along with his
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