Buried in Harrison Kinney’s monumental Thurber biography (James Thurber: His Life and Times, Henry Holt, 1995) is a passage (on page 306) about the period (in 1926) just before Thurber (and his first first wife, Althea) moved to Horatio Street in Greenwich Village, and broke into The New Yorker. The strip cartoonist, Victor (“Dwig”) Dwiggins (creator of “School Days” among
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Thurber Thursday: An E.B. White “Drawing Idea” For Thurber; Chast’s “Museumland”; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
Out front of the pack of New Yorker cartoon tales is E.B. White’s tinkering with a Carl Rose idea, helping it along to become one of the most famous captions in the magazine’s history. Tinkering with captions was one of White’s many jobs at the magazine, but until the other day I didn’t realize he had taken at least one
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From The Spill’s Vault: I Say It Was Rose’s Spinach…and E.B. White’s
Something from the Spill’s Archive, originally published in December of 2013, expanded in 2016, with an additional passage added today. I have a fondness for Carl Rose’s New Yorker work: 543 cartoons and 4 covers in 46 years, from 1925 through 1971. The affection was compounded by reading his one and only collection, One Dozen Roses (Random House, 1946). This
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The New Yorker 96th Anniversary Week (Cont’d): A Fake Mock-Up 1st Cover; Audio Of Interest: Dale Kramer, Author of 1951’s “Ross And The New Yorker”
The very first issue of The New Yorker (shown here) was dated February 21, 1925 — exactly 96 years ago today. Many years back while reading Dale Kramer’s Ross And The New Yorker (Doubleday, 1951)* I came across this passage on page 64, talking about that first issue’s cover: “The most inviting feature of the first issue came about by
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