Thurber Thursday… New Yorker Cartoonist Paul Noth To Receive The Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art
Hearty congratulations to my New Yorker colleague, Paul Noth, who will receive the Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art tomorrow night in New York City. Liza Donnelly and I will have the honor of presenting the award.
Mr. Noth began contributing to The New Yorker in 2004. Here’s his first cartoon in the magazine, from the issue of October 18, 2004:
Link here to Paul Noth’s website.
Link here to hear Mr. Noth being interviewed on the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (July of 2021)
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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