The Society Of Illustrators fab headquarters is the home of the largest Thurber drawing I’ve ever seen. Years ago, I saw some large Thurber originals lining the hallways of the Great Southern Hotel as part of a Thurber birthday celebration. If my memory is correct, they weren’t as big as the one at the Society. Thanks to Anelle Miller, Executive
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The Spill’s Traditional Superbowl Sunday Cartoon With the big day upon us, it’s time to dust off the above drawing of mine that appeared in The New Yorker, October 16, 2006. I’m admittedly more of a baseball fan than a football fan; I post this drawing because it reminds me somehow of my late father-in-law who loved the game. ________________________________________________________________________
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An Obscure Program With Art By Addams, Arno, Thurber, Soglow…And More Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery takes a close look at a rare Navy Relief Show Program from 1942, provided to him by Joel Jacobus. As you can see from the page below, the event included work by a number of The New Yorker‘s star artists, including Charles Addams, Constantin Alajalov,
Read moreSome Robert Weber From The Art Contrarian, April 6, 2020, “Robert Weber, New Yorker Cartoonist” — a brief reminder of the late great Mr. Weber and his work. Above: one of Mr. Weber’s ten New Yorker covers. Robert Weber’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Robert Weber (Pictured mid 1980s. Photograph by Liza Donnelly) Born April 22, 1924, Los Angeles, California.
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