Latest Parody Addition To The Spill Library: “The New Yawker” From James Thurber’s alma mater, Ohio State University, and The Sun Dial (the O.S.U. magazine he wrote for and edited within the first decade of the 1900s): The New Yawker. Very pleased to have come across this copy (the only one I’ve seen) and added it to the collection*(see below
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Poking around Edwin Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography (Ohio State University Press, 1968) I came across wording I’d surely seen before but didn’t really think too much about. In the entry for Thurber & Company, published in 1966, five years after Thurber’s death, we see this: —Seven captions taken from A Thurber Carnival … are substituted for the
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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
Read moreA Virgil Partch Bonanza Dick Buchanan has dug into his voluminous files for a whole lot of Virgil Partch. Mr. Partch’s cartoons (he signed his work “VIP”) appeared in The New Yorker just a half dozen times, but could be found in many of the major (and some of the minor) magazines of his day . Mr. Buchanan gives us
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