Until modern times*, it wasn’t that often we’d see one cartoonist reference another cartoonist’s work. Here’s an example from (I’m guessing) 1947, when Hollywood turned out the Danny Kaye film of Thurber’s The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty. In this case, the cartoonist referencing another was Robert Kraus, a New Yorker colleague of Thurber’s… but the drawing did not appear
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Here’s a rainy (snowy in some parts) day audio piece. Taped in 1944 for CBS radio: Robert Benchley reads James Thurber’s classic, “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” (the story originally appeared in The New Yorker, March 18, 1939). ___________________________________________________________________________ James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces
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Thurber’s classic “The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty” first appeared in The New Yorker issue of March 18, 1939. It’s a 1 and 2/3rds page piece (a Morris Bishop poem takes up the other 1/3 of a page). As we know, the piece was twice made into a film. In an interview with George Plimpton and Max Steele in 1958,
Read moreNow that The New Yorker Festival has entered the history books, we can point out a New Yorker cartoonist moment to watch. With the endearingly funny Andy Borowitz at the helm of “A New Yorker Night with The Moth” Matthew Diffee makes an appearance, telling us about his journey to becoming a New Yorker cartoonist, and running
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