Ebay Item Of Interest: Male Animal Program
I don’t see these on Ebay all that often, so it deserves mentioning here. A really nice program for James Thurber and Elliot Nugent’s play, The Male Animal.
James Thurber’s A-Z 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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More MAD: Flake & Chatfield In Conversation
In conjunction with The Norman Rockwell Museum’s super duper MAD exhibit, New Yorker contributors Emily Flake and Jason Chatfield will be in conversation tomorrow evening talking about (according to Mr. Chatfield) “MAD magazine’s impact on a younger generation of artists and writers.”-
More MAD/New Yorker
Back in July of 2018, the Spill listed New Yorker artists who had appeared in MAD. Just for fun, I’m repeating the list here (if I’m missing anyone, please let me know):
Peter Porges, John Caldwell, Peter Kuper, Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Bob Eckstein,
Joe Dator, Lars Kenseth, P.C. Vey, Tom Cheney, Sara Lautman, Ward Sutton
Felipe Galindo, Glen LeLievre, Jason Chatfield, Emily Flake,
Shannon Wheeler, Pia Guerra