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James Grover Thurber (December 8, 1894 – November 2, 1961) was an American cartoonist, writer, humorist, journalist, and playwright. He was best known for his cartoons and short stories, published mainly in The New Yorker and collected in his numerous books.
This year, Columbus-born writer, playwright and cartoonist James Thurber would have turned 130. Thurber was born in 1894 and died, at age 66, in 1961.
Other Thurber cartoons are similarly animated over the course of the series—sometimes in the opening sequence, sometimes later in the episode. The episode "Cristabel" begins with Monroe lying on top of a cartoon doghouse, a reference to the non-Thurber cartoon character Snoopy. Animation for the series was by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
From 1916 to 1918, then-student James Thurber served as the editor of the magazine. After Thurber's graduation, the Sundial continued to publish, making fun of University officials. The magazine was briefly banned in 1944 by university President Howard Bevis after publishing an obscene cover of its Freshman Uplift edition, where a student is ...
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Charles Thurber, black man lynched in 1882; Charles Thurber (inventor) (1803–1886), American inventor who contributed to the early typewriter; George Thurber (1821-1890), American naturalist and writer; James Thurber (1894–1961), American humorist and cartoonist, often known simply as Thurber; James A. Thurber (born 1943), political science ...
Fawkes, who used the pen name Trog, drew cartoons for various newspapers and played jazz alongside famous musicians in the 1950s. Cartoonist and jazz musician Wally Fawkes dies aged 98 Skip to ...