Al Frueh’s Thurber-like Drawing Al Frueh, mentioned here yesterday (his was the first cartoon in the very first issue of The New Yorker) provided the below drawing in the April 9, 1960 issue of the magazine (“The Thurber Carnival” had opened the previous February). Mr. Frueh did a great job of staying true to his own style while tipping his
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As we move closer the The New Yorker‘s 100th birthday in February of 2025, I find myself revisiting the magazine’s earliest issues, and earliest cartoon collections, and thinking about “firsts.” The first seventeen cartoon collections were called “Albums. ” The very first Album was published in 1928 (The New Yorker Album) — the last Album (The New Yorker Cartoon Album
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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 Cover: Subterranean Santa The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Seventeen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (Ivan Ehlers has a “Sketchpad”). No newbies, and no duos, that we know of. The longest active cartoonist contributor in this issue is Roz Chast. This week’s cartoons.
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The Spill celebrates James Thurber every Thursday (“Thurber Thursday”) but as his 130th birthday falls on a Sunday this year, we’ll blow a trumpet in his honor today. Here’s a really terrif interview with him from 1956 conducted by Alistair Cooke. The interview took place at Thurber’s “great good place” in Cornwall, Connecticut. Below: Thurber with his second
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