Coming this July from Ohio State University Press, A Mile And A Half of Lines: The Art Of James Thurber. Edited by Michael Rosen, with contributions from Rosemary Thurber, Liza Donnelly, Seymour Chwast, Ian Frazier, and yours truly. From the publisher: Humorist, cartoonist, writer, playwright. James Thurber was to the twentieth century what Mark Twain was to the nineteenth. At
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Personal History: Ink Never Sleeps
There are probably as many different work habits among New Yorker cartoonists as there are New Yorker cartoonists. I’ve heard of colleagues who are nine-to-fivers, and those who’ve worked the night shift. There was even a rumor of a colleague, now long gone, who did his batch of cartoons on the train as he headed down from Connecticut to see
Read moreNot That Kind Of Boxing Day
It being Boxing Day, I thought it would be fun to post an ancient New Yorker boxing drawing of mine. Then I looked up the meaning(s) of Boxing Day. A major surprise (to me) that “boxing” in this case has nothing to do with fisticuffs. Well I’m going to post the drawing anyway, despite it having zero connection
Read moreFrom The Archive: Happy Thanksgiving
An Ink Spill Thanksgiving tradition continues with the re-posting of my nod to one of this day’s pastimes. Originally published in The New Yorker, October 16, 2006.
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