Of all the duties Wolcott Gibbs attended to during his thirty-one years at The New Yorker (and his duties were many: editor, writer, theater critic), his relationship to the magazine’s cartoonists (or “artists” as the magazine calls them) is probably the least examined. When Gibbs began at The New Yorker, working under Katharine Angell (later, after marrying E.B. White,
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And on this day in Cartoon History…
From The Internet Writing Workshop, “This Day in Writing History” — a brief bio of James Thurber on the anniversary of his birth, this day in 1894.
Read moreNew book: The 50 Funniest American Writers, edited by Andy Borowitz
From The Library of America, The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion , edited by Andy Borowitz, includes work by James Thurber, E.B. White, Dorothy Parker, Donald Barthelme, Veronica Geng, Tom Wolfe, Ian Frazier, Susan Orlean, Calvin Trillin, S.J. Perelman, Woody Allen, Peter De Vries, Philip Roth, and many many more.
Read moreAnother from the Cartoon Attic: Whither Whither, or After Sex What?
Whither Whither, or After Sex What? Edited by Walter S. Hankel (1930, The Macaulay Co., NY) I’ve always loved this book more for its cover than its content. It was published just five years after the birth of The New Yorker, and a year before Thurber’s first drawing appeared in the magazine (January of 1931). That isn’t to
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