Latest Parody Addition To The Spill Library: “The New Yawker” From James Thurber’s alma mater, Ohio State University, and The Sun Dial (the O.S.U. magazine he wrote for and edited within the first decade of the 1900s): The New Yawker. Very pleased to have come across this copy (the only one I’ve seen) and added it to the collection*(see below
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You’re Kidding, Right? Here’s what the cover of the original edition of James Thurber’s Let Your Mind Alone! looks like. It was published exactly eighty-four years and one day ago (for those not wanting to do the math: September 8, 1937). I think it’s quite a beautiful cover, but then I think almost every Thurber book cover is beautiful. Here
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New ToonStack: “Cartoons That Predicted The Future” From ToonStack, a gathering of (mostly) New Yorker contributors, this latest post: “Cartoons That Predicted The Future” This week’s New Yorker artists are: Ellis Rosen, Amy Kurzweil, J.A.K., Navied Mahdavian, Ali Solomon, and Victor Varnado. ________________________________________________________________________ Latest Cartoon Pad Guest: Victoria Roberts Victoria Roberts is the guest on the brand new episode of
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Michael Gerber, the fellow who’s behind the wonderful humor magazine The American Bystander, has unveiled a new website, The 251, “dedicated to publishing prose 251 words or shorter, and cartoons that don’t take longer than four seconds to figure out.” (above: Tom Chitty‘s design for the 251) By the way, if you love cartoon elephants, you’ll be thrilled by this
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