Thurber Thursday: Dinner With Thurber Or Joyce; Cover Revealed: Mahdavian’s “This Country”; Searle On Attempted Bloggery; Business Card Of Interest

Dinner With Thurber Or Joyce

 

Here’s a fun Thurber mention courtesy of Fran Lebowitz in The Paris Review, Summer 1993 (interviewed by Richard Linvell and George Plimpton):

“If I had to, I would rather have dinner with James Thurber, than, say James Joyce. I’m not the biggest James Joyce fanatic and I would rather have dinner with someone who was funny.”

 

James Thurber’s A-Z Spill entry:

James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According to the New Yorker’s legendary editor, William Shawn, “In the early days, a small company of writers, artists, and editors — E.B. White, James Thurber, Peter Arno, and Katharine White among them — did more to make the magazine what it is than can be measured.”

Key cartoon collection: The Seal in the Bedroom and Other Predicaments (Harper & Bros., 1932). Key anthology (writings & drawings): The Thurber Carnival (Harper & Row, 1945). There have been a number of Thurber biographies. Burton Bernstein’s Thurber (Dodd, Mead, 1975) and Harrison Kinney’s James Thurber: His Life and Times (Henry Holt & Co., 1995) are essential. Website

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Book Cover Reveal:  Navied Mahdavian’s “This Country”

 

This Country, Mr. Mahdavian’s upcoming graphic novel, now has a cover. 

The book will be out early September of this year (Princeton Architectural Press is the publisher).

Visit his website here. 

 

 

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Searle On Attempted Bloggery

It’s a lot of fun seeing Attempted Bloggery focus on one artist’s work. In this case it’s Ronald Searle, (someone I need to investigate more). 

Visit Attempted Bloggery to see more. 

Ronald Searle’s A-Z Spill entry:

Ronald Searle Born, Cambridge, England March 3, 1920. Died, December 30, 2011, Draguignan, France. Steven Heller, who wrote Searle’s obit for The New York Times (Jan 4, 2012) said Searle’s “outlandishly witty illustrations for books, magazine covers, newspaper editorial pages and advertisements helped define postwar graphic humor…”

New Yorker work (including covers and cartoons): November 12, 1966 – August 19, 2002. An interesting tribute site: ronaldsearle.blogspot.com/ Searle’s wiki entry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Searle

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Business Card Of Interest

 

While at The New Yorker‘s big party last week, was pleased to see Ken Krimstein, a Spill fave graphic novelist, and New Yorker cartoonist since 2000. At some point Ken produced a card and handed it to someone. Never missing an opportunity to get hold of a “collectible” (a “cool”- ectible?)I asked for a card too. As you see, the card promotes his upcoming Einstein In Kafkaland. Looking forward to it!