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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The Tilley Watch Online, August 8 – 12, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Zoe Si, Adam Douglas Thompson, Lila Ash, Dan Misdea, Jason Chatfield (with Scott Dooley) Daily Shouts: J.A.K. …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Donald Trump Is A Stand- Up Guy”
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Exciting news, particularly for those who love James Thurber’s original art: Christie’s has put up three lots of Thurber drawings (one lot includes books with drawings). Altogether there are 26 pieces up for grabs. Lot 423: 8 drawings, some of them were published in The New Yorker, including this classic drawing from the issue of November 28, 1936: Lot 424:
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