I hopefully will forever be surprised by foreign edition Thurber covers. Google translated the below Czechoslovakian title to “The Philosopher and the Oyster” — one of the fables in Thurber’s 1956 Further Fables For Our Time. The cover drawing is definitely not an oyster, it’s supposed to be a toad…I suppose a toad could be philosophical. This book… is this
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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 Cover: released early last week, post-election. The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Eighteen cartoons, nineteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover). Two newbies: Rich North, who is the 18th cartoonist added to The New Yorker‘s cartoonist colosseum this year, and the
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Helen Hokinson, one of The New Yorker‘s earliest and greatest artists, was inducted into The Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame last night in a ceremony at the organization’s home in Manhattan. Ms. Hokinson’s award was accepted by New Yorker cartoonist, Liza Donnelly, who delivered the remarks (shown below). Here’s a fun photo (by Ms. Donnelly) from the evening:
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A Button Sometimes the simplest things are the best things. Take for instance the Thurber dog eraser in the photo shown here. It came from the Thurber House gift shop I don’t know how many years ago. I’ve never used it as an eraser, and now, even if I wanted to (and I never will), it’s too late, as it’s
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