The third early release New Yorker cover in a month — surely a sign of the times. With the news on overdrive these days I again urge the magazine to consider running an online Daily Cover much as they run a Daily Cartoon and Daily Shouts. In next week’s cover, Eric Drooker recalls the iconic (c.1930) photo of Grand Central
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Thurber Thursday (Personal History); Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; More Spills: Solomon, JAK
Thurber Thursday When I moved to Greenwich Village in late 1977, renting an apartment on West 11th Street, I’d no idea how near I was living to the once home of James Thurber — the fellow whose work brought me to the big city. In the photo above (thanks Google!) the grey and yellow-paneled modern building all the way to
Read moreThurber Thursday: The Alistair Cooke Interview; Tom Toro To Talk In Ohio; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
It seemed to take forever for video of James Thurber to show up. My fascination (understatement) with the person and his work began when I was a teenager, but it wasn’t until Adam Van Doren’s James Thurber: The Life and Times documentary film was released (on DVD, in 2000) that I got to see video of Thurber talk and (briefly)
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In 1972 or 1973, several years before my work was first accepted into The New Yorker, I began drawing in the black sketchbooks you see above. At the time it seemed like a good idea, and it remained a good idea until the late 1970s, when having arrived at Sketchbook #73 (yes, I numbered them), I suddenly stopped. The reason
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