Thurber Original Drawings At The Library Of Congress & Smith Last Thursday, the Spill noted Vassar’s two Thurber original drawings. In the days since, comics scholar, editor of ComicsDC, and good friend of the Spill, Mike Rhode, alerted me to the Thurber originals in The Library of
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Thurber At Vassar What a nice surprise to learn that Vassar has two Thurber original drawings. The one above now joins (in my memory bank) the handful of other “complicated” Thurber drawings
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James Thurber’s Blue Plate Specials The other day I received an email about several blue plates featuring drawings by James Thurber. I’d never seen anything like them before. I guessed they might be homemade due to the choice of
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Collecting Himself: In the pre-personal computer days, I used to carry around a “Want List” — pages and pages of New Yorker-related book titles and magazines that I’d found listed in bibliographies. The Want List was sort of like a shopping list you’d bring to the grocery store. The difference is that most of what I was looking for in
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