Last week I showed three James Thurber spot drawings that appeared in several early 1950s New Yorkers I came across in bound volumes. You might wonder why I’m talking about Thurber spot drawings when his spots appeared many many times in previous decades. The reason is that by the 1950s Thurber was no longer drawing work for publication. His TIME
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Thurber’s Shakespeare The other day I ran (online) into this wonderful double page spread in the September 1935 issue of Stage Magazine: “James Thurber Presents William Shakespeare.” Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography, is ever-so-slightly off in his accounting of the Stage drawings, saying there are four drawings (there are five). Not clear to me why these were run white
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Jabberwock? I don’t claim to know about all things Thurber. My focus this past half century has been his drawings and collecting his books, with a particular emphasis on the former. I’m still learning about material that appeared after Thurber’s passing in November of 1961. Case in point: just last night, I learned of a 1972 play, Jabberwock, based on
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Amy Kurzweil Guests On Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Amy Kurzweil joins co-hosts Beth Lawler and Vin Coca (with Nicole Chrolavicius subbing for Paul Nesja) in episode #111. Ms. Kurzweil began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit her website here. _________________________________________________________________________ Thurber Scholar Michael Rosen Guests On Cartoon Pad Pod Friend of the Spill, Thurber Scholar, Michael Rosen, guests
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