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JAMES THURBER (1894 – 1961)
THE NEW YORKER’S ACCIDENTAL CARTOONIST
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RUMORS OF WARKEHINDE WILEY
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The Algonquin Hotel and
Restaurant
59 W 44th St. New York, NY.
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“The Round Table”
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“A Vicious Circle” by
Natalie Ascencious
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Site of the second New Yorker.
25 West Forty-third Street,
New York, NY.
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The New York Public Library
476 5th Ave, New York,
NY.
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Reading room at The New York
Public Library.
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QUANTIFYING THE COMIC CONTRIBUTION OF THURBER.
• Collaboration with E.B. White
• 400 “third rate” cartoons over 25 years. (Harold Ross).
• Described as minimalist and compared to Matisse by Paul Nash.
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SAME THING ONLY DIFFERENT…
James ThurberHenri Matisse
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HAROLD ROSS AND
JAMES THURBER
Capriciousness
AND
Randomness
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“If this drawing is not funny, and is not a swell drawing, I shall
engage to eat it, and with all of Price’s fantasies that just miss,
all of Taylor’s S. Klein women, and all eleven versions of every
drawing Day does of two men in a restaurant. I will also eat
every drawing of a man and a woman on a raft, every drawing
of a man and a native woman on a desert island and every
drawing of two thin women…” (Thurber - 1937).
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WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT ALFIE?
James Thurber – self portrait
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James Thurber used simplistic images to
reflect the absurdity of our lives back onto
ourselves.
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“Is Sex Necessary?” (Thurber – White, 1929).
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Moral: There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Moral: If you live as humans do, it will be the end of you.
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Dogs naming themselves from “Thurber’s Dogs”
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“Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.” Anonymous
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Conclusions:
• If you don’t get Thurber’s cartoon’s you are not alone.
• Cartoons don’t have to be funny to be funny. If we think they
are funny, they are.
• “Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit but the highest form of
intelligence” (Oscar Wilde).