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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. By comparison, the area nonprofit arts ...
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',
He was a signature artist whose rounded, elegant, sparsely detailed style evoked both the traditional world of a James Thurber and the contemporary sensibility of a Roz Chast. Barsotti's work features a simple repertory including a nameless, lovable pooch and a monarch whose kingdom consists of a guard and a telephone.
James Thurber: 2 November 1961 (aged 66) New York City, United States Stroke: Cartoonist and writer Gail Russell: 26 August 1961 (aged 36) Los Angeles, California Liver damage, aspiration of vomit [25] Actress Errol Flynn: 14 October 1959 (aged 50) Vancouver, Canada Heart attack: Actor Billie Holiday
Jules Feiffer, the award-winning cartoonist and satirist, died Friday at the age of 95. "Cartoon satire that commented on the military, the bomb, the cold war, the hypocrisy of grown-ups, the ...
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 ...
Thurber presents a parable of the folly of war in which the only survivors of World War XII are a man, a woman, and a flower. From these three love emerges, leading to family, tribe, civilization, and inevitably, another war." [1] While at the New York Algonquin Hotel, Thurber wrote and drew The Last Flower on their yellow paper. Both the ...