The Very First Published Thurber Drawing Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography, the must-have book for Thurbermaniacs tells us that Thurber’s very first published drawing in a periodical, shown above*, was in Ohio State University’s Sun-Dial, November, 1917. It was followed by seven more drawings in the same paper, the last appearing March 7, 1918. The timeline for Thurber’s
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Latest Addition To The Spill Library For decades a small book (5 1/4″ x 7″), published in 1932, Another Ho Hum: More Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”, has sat on the Spill‘s shelf without its predecessor (published the year before) Ho Hum: Newsbreaks From “The New Yorker”. This week (finally!) the 1931 volume has joined its partner. New Yorker history
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Christopher Weyant Guests On The Cartoon Pad New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw welcome their colleague, Chris Weyant on the latest Cartoon Pad. Listen here. Visit Chris Weyant’s website here. _____________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery On A Puzzling Charles Addams Original Stephen Nadler in hot pursuit of the origin of a recently auctioned Addams Family original. Read it here.
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Attempted Bloggery’s Copy Of Peter Schickele’s “Thurber’s Dogs” After finding a blurry image of this CD while roaming the internet, I went looking for a better one to show today, and wouldn’t you know it: a Spill fave blog, Attempted Bloggery already did a piece on this disc back in July 2017. Don’t know how I missed it, but I’m
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