I’ve always thought of John Updike as a sort of honorary New Yorker cartoonist. He was Thurber inspired early on in life (and mass media cartoons inspired as well). By the time he went to Harvard he aspired to become a New Yorker cartoonist. As he said in a PBS documentary: “I got into The New Yorker. I didn’t become James Thurber,
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Ebay Item Of Interest: Male Animal Program I don’t see these on Ebay all that often, so it deserves mentioning here. A really nice program for James Thurber and Elliot Nugent’s play, The Male Animal. James Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run
Read moreCurtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., later known as Peter Arno, was born one hundred and fifteen years ago this month. The Spill will celebrate with an Arno post a week in January. Twenty-one years later, he began his four decade association with the New Yorker. We cartoonists who arrived in his wake owe him much. Arno’s approach to his art became
Read moreNew York Times Article of Interest: Emma Allen From The New York Times, July 2, 2017, “At The New Yorker, the Cartoonists Draw, But the Vision is Hers” — Ms. Allen, two months into her new position as the magazine’s cartoon editor. ____________________________________________________ Radio: Liza Donnelly on “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” Ms. Donnelly as a panelist
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