Not long ago (maybe a few months) the Spill was lucky enough to add the Thurber dog drawing shown above to its collection; I never would have known about it had not a friend, aware of my quest for a Thurber dog, alerted me to the drawing being listed online. I’ll always be grateful to him.
I’d been telling folks for awhile how having a Thurber dog drawing here would be the cat’s pajamas. Turns out it is. The dog, now framed, hangs near the other Thurber drawings we have — a terrific trio. Every day I spend a few moments looking at this mini-gallery. The little dog (less than two inches long, including the tail), along with the Thurber rabbits and people in the other drawings, unfailingly delivers a very big boost. Like all of Thurber’s art, seeing it is like being attached to a cartoonist battery charger.
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Audio Interview Of Interest: Edward Koren
From VTDigger, October 12, 2022, “Vermont Conversation: Ed Koren On Art, Humor, And His Mortality”
Mr. Koren began contributing to The New Yorker in May of 1962.
You can visit his website here.
More Koren: The Spill interviewed Edward Koren earlier this year. Read it here.