From Michael Shaw, The Night The TV Talked Back From Michael Shaw, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999, The Fall Of The House Of Thurber — this piece from the Mizzou Magazine Winter 2022 in which Mr. Shaw, who has happily embraced a lifelong case of Thurberitis, recalls a restless night at The Thurber House in Columbus,
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Three Book Ads Here’s a trio of ads I ran across this morning while having a fun breeze through of some late 1970s, early 1980s New Yorkers.* Seeing the Steig book ad, I’d forgotten the Lillian Ross intro — I’m inspired to dig the book out of the Spill library and see what Ms. Ross had to say about
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Fave Stand-Up Photos Of The Day: Chatfield, Campbell, Varnado, Flake We’re used to seeing photos of cartoonists at their drawing boards, hovering over their work. But here are some photos taken last night of four New Yorker cartoonists (mostly) not sitting down, but standing up, doing stand-up, on stage, in front of their projected drawings. The occasion: “Funny On Paper;
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Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons Monday’s Daily Cartoonist: Kate Curtis, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016, on eating out again. Tuesday’s Daily Cartoonist: Zoe Si, who began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2020, on doorman & door-rodent. _________________________________________________________________ Video Of Interest: Victor Varnado Here’s a fun video from Victor Varnado, who began contributing his cartoons
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