Thurber Thursday Of the many Thurber articles in Life magazine, I’ve always been partial to the one appearing in the March 14, 1960 issue (not too long before his death, in November of 1961). It includes a number of pages of great photos (one shown above, and one shown below) as well as a page of Thurber quotes (“Barbed Shafts
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More Gahan Wilson; A Peter Arno Rarity From The Bloom Vault; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Humor Mag Of Interest: American Bystander #12; Today’s Daily Shouts…By Amy Kurzweil; Preview Of Interest on Salon: Shannon Wheeler’s “Mueller Report”
More Gahan Wilson From 27East.com, October 24, 2019, “Cartoonist Gahan Wilson Is Looking To Find His Way” — this piece by Annette Hinkle on one of the modern masters of the form. …and this Chicago Sun-Times column from Neil Steinberg, October 24, 2019, “‘Lucky to be alive’ — morbid cartoonist faces dementia” _________________________________________________________ A Peter Arno Rarity From The Bloom
Read moreThe Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of September 30, 2019
The Cover: Christoph Niemann returns for the Technology Issue. Read Francoise Mouly’s Q&A with him about his cover. The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Electronically flipping through this new issue (appropriately enough for the Technology Issue) I was happy that the cartoons just kept-a-comin’; there are seventeen of them to be exact. All of them are placed well (i.e., they have plenty
Read moreThe Wednesday Watch: Visiting Addams Hometown; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Shannon Wheeler’s Next Book; A Liana Finck Daily Shouts
Visiting Addams Hometown From slashfilm.com, August 14, 2019, “We Visited the Creepy and Kooky Birthplace of the Addams Family” _______________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon A Statue Of Liberty poem by Peter Kuper, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2011. Visit his website here. _______________________________________________ Shannon Wheeler’s Next Book Too Much Coffee Man: The Before Years, out
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