Hearty congratulations to my New Yorker colleague, Paul Noth, who will receive the Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art tomorrow night in New York City. Liza Donnelly and I will have the honor of presenting the award. Mr. Noth began contributing to The New Yorker in 2004. Here’s his first cartoon in the magazine, from the issue of October 18,
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As I’ve leisurely made my way through decades of the earliest back issues of The New Yorker I’ve come across a number of things I never cataloged before. Below are three full page ads featuring Thurber art for the play “Rain From Heaven”— it doesn’t appear that Thurber had anything to do with the play other than contributing these illustrations
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The 2025 Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art Goes to Paul Noth Thurber House announced this morning that the winner of the 2025 Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art goes to Paul Noth, who has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2004. The Spill congratulates Mr. Noth! The below
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Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles The New Yorker magazine put on the Ritz last night (or, more specifically, put on the Jean’s) for its 100th birthday party. Happily, the weather cooperated — no freak winter storms, sub-freezing temps, or torrential rain — just a good old fashioned chilly dreary Winter’s night in Manhattan. My favorite kind
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