— This piece was originally posted in December of 2013. It has been updated and expanded. When I moved to Manhattan in the fall of 1976, just out of college, I was on a mission to be published by The New Yorker. Little did I know, when I rented an apartment at 113 West
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James Montgomery Flagg’s Thurber Came across this portrait of Thurber by one of the biggest names in American illustration of yore, James Montgomery Flagg. Is it just my imagination, or did Flagg’s style get in the way of capturing his subject. James Thurber’s A-Z Spill entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker
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Maybe this sounds funny coming from someone who spends a lot of time drawing “pictures” but there are plenty of times I like to just take some time off to look at pictures… of New Yorker folks, past and present. Take last night for instance (please!)…oops, sorry, and apologies to Henny Youngman*…. Anyway, last night I typed in James Thurber
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Latest ToonStack If it’s Sunday, it’s Toonstack time. A bunch of (mostly) New Yorker cartoonists shower us with cartoons on a theme. This week’s: What’s Love Got To Do With It? Contributors include Hilary Campbell, Navied Mahdavian, Felipe Galindo (aka Feggo), Amy Hwang, Ellis Rosen, Kendra allenby, Johnny DiNapoli, Amy Kurzweil, Sofia Warren, Madeline Horwath, and J.A.K.. ___________________________________________________________________ New The
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