Last Friday, my New Yorker cartoonist colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly and I, made a trip west to Columbus, Ohio to join in the festivities surrounding the awarding of the Thurber Prize For American Humor (the winner was Steven Rowley for The Guncle). Our part was to deliver the following (after a few minutes of on-stage banter): “As long time
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Thurber Prize Finalists To Be Named Tomorrow is the day The Thurber House announces its finalists for The Thurber Prize. The Thurber House in Columbus, Ohio is pretty much the center of the Thurberverse. I’ve been there several times (staying the night on one of those visits in the famous attic where the bed fell). Here’s a link to the
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Fave Photo Of The Day: Liza Donnelly & Edward Frascino This photo taken yesterday in Santa Monica. Ms. Donnelly is visiting the left coast, Mr. Frascino lives there. Edward Frascino began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 1965 (he was the subject of an Ink Spill interview in 2020, celebrating his 90th birthday). Ms. Donnelly began contributing
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Thanks to the enormous generosity of a very good friend of the Spill, our Thurber original collection doubled in size recently, from one drawing to two — or has it tripled to three? The piece is unusual in that both sides contain original Thurber drawings. As you can see there’s an issue date on the piece: Aug 26,1939. Here’s how
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