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Thurber's Passport
James Thurber, the celebrated American author and cartoonist, is shown here in a 1955 passport photo at age 60. Thurber lost an eye in a boyhood accident in which his brother shot him with an arrow....
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Something in the Air
James Thurber was born on this day in 1894. In 2007, Sotheby's sold a tension-filled Thurber drawing featuring two contemporary women intruding upon an otherwise all-male saloon, dating it to the...
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Greatness in Your Lifetime
I concede that this is an inspiring fortune. The only problem is that it didn't come from my fortune cookie! The good news is that it is my wife who is destined for greatness. The bad news is that...
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Gahan Wilson's One-Stop Shopping
This original cartoon by Gahan Wilson may have been published in Playboy. Then again, maybe it wasn't. The documentation is vague and not easy to verify. A few words scribbled on the back of a framed...
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Gahan Wilson for the Thurber House
"There she is again!" The overbearing woman of of gigantic proportions originally created by James Thurber now peers onto the porch of Thurber House itself at 77 Jefferson Avenue in Columbus, the...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #404
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #404 for November 18, 2013. The cartoon is provided by Gahan Wilson. The caption is provided by me."Honey, do you think I'd make a good...
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Andrea Arroyo: Memories Interlaced
The very talented Andrea Arroyo has a new exhibition opening tomorrow in upper Manhattan at the Shabazz Center. As you can see, her work is figurative and colorful, laden with sweeping movement and an...
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Garth Williams: Preliminary Title Illustration for Over and Over
Author Charlotte Zolotow passed away this week at the age of 98. Garth Williams illustrated her 1963 book Over and Over. This preliminary title sketch is from a collection of twenty-one preliminary...
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Gahan Wilson's Skeleton in the Closet
Well, we all have one, don't we?Gahan Wilson,"Must you bring that up every time we have an...
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Heavenly Seuss
Imagine being a house guest of the Geisels and receiving this Dr. Seuss watercolor as a reminder of the house rules! Don't be fooled by the angelic presentation and "Please do not ask for breakfast in...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #407,
Here is my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #407 for December 9, 2013. The cartoon is by Mick Stevens. The caption is by me."The creative types and Brandon prefer this to the ball...
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Be Yourself?
You should always be yourself, right? I mean, it seems pretty obvious. Or so I thought until I spied this enlightening license plate during yesterday's snowfall.YNOTBMENew Jersey License PlateNote: My...
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Jean-Michel Folon for American Ballet Theatre
Original watercolor artwork by Jean-Michel Folon celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the American Ballet Theatre in 1990. The disembodied cut-out doll limbs mark this illustration as one of Folon's...
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Friday the Thirteenth: Donald's Lucky Day
Take a look at the calendar. Today, Friday the 13th, is Donald Duck's lucky day according to the 1939 Disney short! Three of the five original illustrations of this cartoon short by Tom Wood for Good...
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George Herriman: A Sweet and Hotsy-Totsy Xmas
I don't know all that much about cartoonist Gus Mager (1878-1956), creator of the comic strips "Knocko the Monk,""Sherlocko the Monk," and "Hawkshaw the Detective," but anyone who could get himself on...
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Ronald Searle: Greeting Cards from Changi Gaol
These four wartime greeting cards were created by prisoners of war in Changi Gaol, a Japanese prison camp in Singapore. They consist of one Christmas card, two birthday cards, and an anniversary card....
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My Parent's Anniversary
To my parents I wish a very happy and, I hope, healthy 57th anniversary. Mom and Dad, they're still playing your song."I've Got a Crush on You" (1928)Dinah Washington, Vocals (1956)George Gershwin,...
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Shannon Wheeler: God is Disappointed in You
I find Shannon Wheeler'sart is hard to resist. When I met him back at MoCCA Fest 2012, I purchased a couple of pieces of original art from him, which is unusual for me. I bought a cartoon rough...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #408
Here is my latest entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #408 for December 16, 2013. The super cartoon is supplied by J. C. Duffy while the mild-mannered caption is supplied by me."Not to...
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Maurice Sendak: Some Swell Tree!
Illustrator Maurice Sendak created this painting of a Wild Thing decorated as a Christmas tree for the cover of the December 30, 1976 issue of Rolling Stone. Four years later, The Art of Maurice Sendak...
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