From 1953, this animated version of James Thurber’s “The Unicorn In The Garden” “The Unicorn In The Garden” was originally published in The New Yorker, October 21, 1939 (“Fables For Our Time – VII”). It was first collected in a book, James Thurber’s Fables For Our Time, in 1940. _____________________________________________________________________ Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December
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Auction Watch: Cartoons By Whitney Darrow, Jr., Gahan Wilson, Barney Tobey, and More Mike Lynch reports that Heritage Auctions has a number of original pieces of cartoon art going under the gavel. The offering includes New Yorker artists Whitney Darrow, Jr., Eldon Dedini, Larry Reynolds, Gahan Wilson, and Barney Tobey. See the pieces here. _______________________________________________________________ Now That’s A Cover! Here’s
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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 Cartoonists and Cartoons Thirteen cartoons, thirteen cartoonists. No duos, that we know of. One newbie: Bruno Pieroni, who is the 14th cartoonist added to the magazine’s colosseum of artists this year, and the 179th brought in since Emma Allen
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Personal History…Mystery Tube This morning, while passing through the Spill cartoon library, I noticed some objects on a top shelf that needed to be rearranged (or else they’d fall off the shelf). Not wanting to bother bringing a chair over to stand on, I glanced around for something long enough to reach the top shelf so I could poke the
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