Friday Spill: A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Drawings!; Interview Of Interest…Peter Kuper; Jose Arroyo Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Paul Karasik On Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Podcast; Fun Event: Liana Finck! Asher Perlman! David Ostow! Avi Steinberg!

  A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Cartoons! Joe Dator, one of the great modern New Yorker cartoonists, is offering a number of his original drawings published in the magazine. Below are just two of over a dozen available. See all the work here! This drawing appeared in The New Yorker November 28, 2016.            

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Thurber Thursday: Thurber In A Tent And A Canoe

Buried in Harrison Kinney’s monumental Thurber biography (James Thurber: His Life and Times, Henry Holt, 1995) is a passage (on page 306) about the period (in 1926) just before Thurber (and his first first wife, Althea) moved to Horatio Street in Greenwich Village, and broke into The New Yorker. The strip cartoonist, Victor (“Dwig”) Dwiggins (creator of “School Days” among

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