The Society Of Illustrators fab headquarters is the home of the largest Thurber drawing I’ve ever seen. Years ago, I saw some large Thurber originals lining the hallways of the Great Southern Hotel as part of a Thurber birthday celebration. If my memory is correct, they weren’t as big as the one at the Society. Thanks to Anelle Miller, Executive
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__________________________________________________________________________ A Fave Warren Miller Interview Stephen Nadler’s Warren Miller Attempted Bloggery post last week caused me to revisit Mr. Miller’s two cartoon collections, All Thumbs and Prince and Mrs. Charming. When I took Mr. Miller’s first collection, All Thumbs ( Bobbs-Merrill, 1967) off the shelf and looked at the cover I was reminded I hadn’t read Whitney Balliett‘s intro
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Today’s Daily Cartoonist J.A.K. on masking. Mr. Katzenstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. His latest book is Everything Is An Emergency: An OCD Story In Words & Pictures ________________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of September 12, 1931 As usual, a fun read about a long ago issue of our favorite magazine.
Read moreFave Photo Of The Day: New Yorker Cartoonists At Lunch New Yorker cartoonists get together all the time, usually in groups of two or three. Every so often there’s a larger crowd, like today’s gathering of a dozen on Manhattan’s upper east side. They’re pictured above (the year each cartoonist began contributing to the magazine appears beside their name). Seated,
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