Thurber Thursday: Faces & Facts; Interview Of Interest: Navied Mahdavian; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Faces & Facts Here’s a great little book I picked up quite a ways back during my research for the Peter Arno biography. Faces & Facts By And About 26 Contemporary Artists was privately printed in 1937 (just 526 copies) with an introduction by James Montgomery Flagg and “biographies” by Willis Birchman. Each biography is given a page, and opposite

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Did Arno Write Thurber?

  A lot of material accumulates when you’ve been researching a subject for fifteen years. In my case, much of it was placed in a ramshackle assortment of black binders pictured here.  There was also a binder [not pictured] labeled “Next” that contained a very very  long checklist of things that needed looking into. The more I uncovered about Arno,

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