Latest Addition To The Archives…First Day Of Issue Thurber Stamps Through the generosity of Michael Rosen, Thurberista par excellence, the Spill has received a commemorative folder containing a sheet of first day of issue Thurber stamps, dated September 10 1994, along with various materials related to celebratory events on the occasion (Fran Lebowitz* delivered “Remarks”). My thanks to Mr. Rosen
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Latest Addition To The Spill Archive…The Skull As noted in a previous post, Thurber’s first collection of drawings, 1932’s The Seal In The Bedroom and Other Predicaments included a series of 35 drawings, “The Race of Life.” Drawing #24 in the series, The Skull, has now been added to the Spill‘s Thurber collection. To see three more Race of
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Thurber’s “Best” New Yorker Year (For Drawings) Looking through the database that was the meat of 2005’s The Complete New Yorker, I never fail to find something of interest: something I hadn’t seen before, or something that leads me to something I never thought of before. I’ve known for quite some time that James Thurber’s best years contributing drawings to
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Happy 131st! –Above: “Come on, get hot!” published in The New Yorker April 4, 1936 This past Monday marked James Thurber’s 131st birthday. Here’s Thurber on when he began drawing: “I think it was 1902… I did my first drawings. My father was in politics — had been all his life — and although his three sons grew up to
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