A Yale Record New Yorker Parody Issue With “Thurbs”
This 1961 Yale Record New Yorker parody, The Yew Norker, is a recent addition to the Spill’s New Yorker parody collection mentioned here the other day).
I was pleased (and surprised) to find the below Thurber parody drawing. Pleased and surprised because new Thurber drawings hadn’t appeared in The New Yorker after 1947. It was good to see his graphic stamp on the magazine had endured with the college crowd. (William Shawn, writing the first half of Thurber’s obit in The New Yorker — E.B. White wrote the second — said that “Certainly there will never be an issue of The New Yorker of which Thurber is not a part.”)
Signed “Thurbs,” the drawings appeared, spot-size, on two facing pages.
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Free NYC Subway Pamphlet With Steed And Flake Drawings
From The New York Post, March 13, 2024, “An Unofficial Subway Magazine Is Baffling The MTA — And Delighting Commuters” (I believe that’s an Ed Steed cover you see above on those copies).