It being Thurber Thursday here on the Spill, I wondered this morning what was going on Thurber-wise in The New Yorker back in, say, the 1930s, around this time of year. Not too surprising was what I came across while looking through the issue dated March 4, 1933, exactly 88 years ago today. Thurber was all over the magazine, from
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A friend of the Spill who specializes in sending me (scans of) eye-popping books off his shelves, recently sent this in. It’s not the Dr. Seuss illustrated cover that stirred things up around here, or that the book, published in 1933, is by Frank Sullivan (sorry, Seuss, and sorry, Sullivan): No, the exciting thing about this particular copy is what
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James Thurber And Mary Petty The other day I mentioned Morris Markey’s That’s New York! featuring Johan Bull’s illustrations. Mary Petty’s one and only collection of her work, This Petty Pace (Knopf, 1945) isn’t the same animal. James Thurber had at least two intersections with Ms. Petty’s collection. He not only provided the title (from Macbeth :“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and
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Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Emily Bernstein, who began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2019, on a possible consequence of vacuuming after 10pm. Visit her website here. Today’s Bonus Daily Cartoon Jason Chatfield (with Scott Dooley) on Skipping the Impeachment Recap. Mr. Chatfield began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Visit his
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