Blog-spottings: From the Desk of Bob Mankoff (newyorker.com): “James Thurber’s Giant Swoop” this piece on James Thurber’s influence on modern cartoonists. Shannon Wheeler has begun posting a cartoon-a-day on his site. Today is day two. From The Passenger Diaries, June 15, 2011, “Drawing Inspiration: Talking with New Yorker Cartoonist Drew Dernavich“ From Thinking About Art, June 14,
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Addams’ boyhood home open house; Thurber Unabridged Audio Collection released
From Westfield Patch, June 6, 2011, “Crowds Peer Into Addams Family History” — Charles Addams’ Westfield, New Jersey boyhood home opens its doors. HarperCollins is releasing The Unabridged James Thurber Audio Collection on June 7, 2011. Read all about it here. Keith Olbermann reads Thurber’s fables and selected stories.
Read moreBen Stiller to play Thurber’s Walter Mitty?
From Deadline.com, April 7, 2011, “Ben Stiller Turns Fox’s ‘Walter Mitty’ Reboot From Daydream to Reality”
Read moreFifty Years Earlier
As a cartoonist it’s (mostly) all about what’s next; this may explain why I sometimes like to take a breather and think about what was. Still in a celebratory mode because of The New Yorker’s 86th anniversary, I went to my collection of anniversary issues and pulled out the issue from fifty years ago, dated February 18, 1961. Thought I’d
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