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
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cover: people walking on a sidewalk The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, thirteen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a Sketchpad). No duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active cartoonist contributor in the issue is Roz Chast,
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Latest Addition to The Spill Library…The UK Thurber Carnival James Thurber’s The Thurber Carnival has been, and always will be my #1 Thurber book, if not my #1 book. There are reasons aplenty, but the most important (to me) is that it contains “What have you done with Dr.
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Next up in the Spill‘s First & Last: a look at James Mulligan’s first New Yorker cartoon, and…well, you know. Mr. Mulligan’s a bit of a mystery to me. You would think that for someone — in this case a veteran New Yorker cartoonist — with 501 published cartoons in the magazine, there might be, at the least, an interview
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