That year, Thurber published an astonishing forty-two cartoons in the magazine. Other swoops—by Peter Arno, Charles Addams, and others—would follow, but Thurber’s was the earliest and the ...

When Michael’s cartoons started appearing in the magazine in the late seventies, the influence of his idol, James Thurber, was clear: Over the years, Michael’s cartoons have become completely ...

Anatomy of a New Yorker Cartoon. By Michael Maslin. August 12, 2008. Save this story Save this ... an image of a Thurber guy on skis popped into my head as I sat staring at a blank piece of paper.

"It’s not the ink—it’s the think that makes a cartoon,” wrote longtime cartoon editor for “The New Yorker” magazine, Robert Mankoff. That’s fitting with James Thurber’s style and what he brought to ...

TN February 1927, Reporter James Thurber quit his $40-a-week job on the New York Evening Post to start work as a $100-a-week deskman on Harold Wallace Ross's The New Yorker. Thurber was then 32; ...

When New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly fell ill as a child in the early 1960s, her mother gave her a stack of paper, a pencil and a book of cartoons to keep her busy. The 7-year-old traced the ...

The 23rd Thurber Prize goes to S. E. Boyd, the name created by three people, for their work on "The Lemon," and a new cartoon award goes to Roz Chast.

More than 35 original drawings by humorist and The New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber, most of them previously unpublished and not before seen by the public, will go on view May 25 at the Thurber ...

Jonathan Lethem reads James Thurber's short story "The Wood Duck" and discusses Thurber with The New Yorker's fiction editor, Deborah Treisman.