— From The New Yorker, December 23, 1985 ____________________________________________________________________ Over my near half-century at The New Yorker I’ve paid tribute to James Thurber — sometimes in small ways — the art hanging in rooms — to more obvious ways (such as here and here). In this week’s New Yorker there’s another drawing of mine that came about from
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Thurber’s “Best” New Yorker Year (For Drawings) Looking through the database that was the meat of 2005’s The Complete New Yorker, I never fail to find something of interest: something I hadn’t seen before, or something that leads me to something I never thought of before. I’ve known for quite some time that James Thurber’s best years contributing drawings to
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Happy 131st! –Above: “Come on, get hot!” published in The New Yorker April 4, 1936 This past Monday marked James Thurber’s 131st birthday. Here’s Thurber on when he began drawing: “I think it was 1902… I did my first drawings. My father was in politics — had been all his life — and although his three sons grew up to
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From 1953, this animated version of James Thurber’s “The Unicorn In The Garden” “The Unicorn In The Garden” was originally published in The New Yorker, October 21, 1939 (“Fables For Our Time – VII”). It was first collected in a book, James Thurber’s Fables For Our Time, in 1940. _____________________________________________________________________ Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December
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