Two recent online Thurber finds, both new to me. The first is this scene from a 1962 film starring Peter Sellers, Only Two Can Play. Mr. Sellers plays a librarian. Here’s a short clip, with an appearance by Thurber and E.B. White’s Is Sex Necessary? …And the second find: this Czech book cover for…? Would someone please translate this title,
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_____________________________________________________________________ Otto Soglow’s Spots The arc of Otto Soglow’s Little King has been well covered in Cartoon Monarch: Otto Soglow & The Little King (IDW, 2012), but my attempt to find when he began his long berth as
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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: Music The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists, with one duo (that we know of): Guerra & Boothby. No newbie or newbies. The longest contributing cartoonist in this issue is Roz Chast, whose first New Yorker drawing
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Reminder: Liza Donnelly & Sara Lautman In Conversation At Politics & Prose Today at 7! Sara Lautman, (upper left) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016 will be in conversation with Liza Donnelly, who began contributing to the magazine in 1979. All the info here ______________________________________________________________________________ From Roxie Munro: Studio share available starting June or July. My studiomate of the
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