Thurber’s Dogs Set to Music
Attempted Bloggery has posted this curio: Thurber’s Dogs set to the music of Peter Schickele. Until yesterday, I’d never heard of this.
It’s not the first time Thurber’s work has crossed over from print to music. In one of the many high points of Thurber’s career, his best-seller, The Thurber Carnival was transformed into a a very successful play, with Thurber himself taking the stage.
A soundtrack for the show was issued –it includes a booklet of his drawings. 
The play won a Special Tony Award in 1960. Video exists of Thurber accepting the award (with Burgess Meredith). You can see it here (Thurber takes the stage at the 25:50 mark).
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Blog of Interest
In response to The Spill‘s mention of Arnold Zwicky’s Blog the other day, Mr. Zwicky posted this on his site:
“Note from Michael Maslin on his Inkspill blog (“New Yorker Cartoonists News and Events”), appearing as a comment on a recent posting of mine here:
As you see, Mr. Zwicky’s blog is “mostly about language”; when it’s about the language of New Yorker cartoons it will be mentioned here
This could get burdensome. I’ve posted here over a hundred times about New Yorker cartoons and covers; these are indexed in a Page on this blog, with subpages for (so far) 25 specific artists…”
Ink Spill’s response to Mr. Zwicky’s response:
Dear Mr. Zwicky,
It is a burden The Spill will happily bear.
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Time-Traveling: Saturday Evening Post Cartoons From the 1950s
Mike Lynch’s has posted Eisenhower-era Saturday Evening Post cartoons (and a few that appeared in Collier’s) including this one from the late great New Yorker cartoonist, Barney Tobey.
Here’s Mr. Tobey’s A-Z entry on the Spill:
Barney Tobey (photo above from Think Small, a book of humor produced by Volkswagon) Born in New York City, July, 18, 1906, died March 27, 1989, New York. New Yorker work: 1929 -1986. Essential collection: B. Tobey of The New Yorker (Dodd Mead & Co., 1983)
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Note: An exhibit of Bob Mankoff’s work will run from July 20 through Oct. 20 at the Charles P. Sifton Gallery in the Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse in Brooklyn.