________________________________________________________________ This is a book I bought so long ago I’ve no memory of where or when I picked it up. I do know I paid two bucks for it thanks to the helpful pencil marking on the inside. I have a very vague memory of almost not buying it because Thurber wasn’t on the cover. Part of an extensive
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Whence Bill Lee? From Print Magazine, April 11, 2022, Steven Heller’s The Daily Heller, “When Art Is Garbage.” — Mr. Heller looks at a trove of work by the cartoonist Bill Lee that was once headed for a dumpster. Bill Lee first contributed to The New Yorker in 1974. ______________________________________________________________ Article Of Interest: Jake Goldwasser From Literary
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: a street scene. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. One duo (that we know of): Kaamran Hafeez and Helene Parsons. One newbie: Jonathan Rosen, the 9th cartoonist added to the magazine’s stable in 2022, and the
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Thurber Books, Post 1961: A Survey I thought it might be interesting to round up, and take a quick look at, the Thurber books that were published following his passing in 1961. The first two are old friends — they’ve have been with me for as long as I’ve been collecting Thurber books. Credos & Curios. Harper & Row, 1962.
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