Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.” –Photo: Ken Krimstein We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories
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Join Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Kim Warp, and Kendra Allenby in a live virtual launch for Ms. Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies. Oblong Books in Rhinebeck & Millerton NY hosts this free panel discussion. Register here! In case you missed it, here’s Ms. Donnelly speaking with Joe Donahue yesterday on Public Radio Station WAMC’s Roundtable. And here’s a piece “These
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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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According to Harper’s, “The Future, If Any, Of Comedy… or, where do we non-go from here” published in its December 1961 issue is “believed to be the last piece Mr. Thurber wrote.” As you see in the scan below, it first appeared in London, in The Times Literary Supplement. It appeared on US newsstands via Harper’s the month Thurber
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