Thurber Thursday: Thurber In A Tent And A Canoe

Buried in Harrison Kinney’s monumental Thurber biography (James Thurber: His Life and Times, Henry Holt, 1995) is a passage (on page 306) about the period (in 1926) just before Thurber (and his first first wife, Althea) moved to Horatio Street in Greenwich Village, and broke into The New Yorker. The strip cartoonist, Victor (“Dwig”) Dwiggins (creator of “School Days” among

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One Of The Ones To Watch At DOC NYC Fest: “Stevenson Lost And Found”; Reminder! Peter Kuper Tonight At Greenlight; A Liana Finck Exhibit; Andy Friedman (aka Larry Hat) On Panel With Billy Joel; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Ward Sutton; Review Of Interest: “Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made The Funnies Funny”

James Stevenson Film One Of Ones To Watch At Doc NYC Fest From Bedford + Bowery, November 6, 2019, “What To Watch At This Year’s Doc NYC Festival” James Stevenson’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: James Stevenson Born, NYC, 1929. Died, February 17, 2017, Cos Cob, Connecticut. New Yorker work: March 10, 1956 -. Stevenson interned as an office boy

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Panckeri Pencilled; More Gus Mager

Drew Panckeri is up next on Jane Mattimoe’s terrif blog, A Case For Pencils. Read all about Mr. Panckeri’s tools of the trade here.       _____________________________________________________________________   From The Comics Journal, June 1, 2016, here’s “The Lost Sundays of Gus Mager 1904-1906”, Part 2 of Paul Tumey’s close look at the artist’s work.          

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