A cartoon illustration of a lawyer yelling and pointing at a dejected looking dog on the stand while a jury and disgruntled farmer look on. Caption reads "And Bing-o was his name-o, ladies and gentlemen of the court!"
A cartoon illustration of a man and his dog holding each on a chair as a cat paints them on an easel. Caption reads "The weekends had got a lot more interesting since the cat had started to paint."
Domestic Security Minister Ian Lafrenière said lawyer Michel Bouchard will investigate the actions of Longueuil police after the shooting and have six months to produce a report.
Looking at James Thurber’s first New Yorker cartoons this morning, it came as quite a surprise that the famous “Thurber dog” did not make an appearance in the magazine until 29 Thurber cartoons had been published in the magazine (I’m not including the ones that showed up in his “Our Pet Department” series. While I love those dogs, they’re not the dog you see above, shown here in eraser form). In fact, not a one of those first 29 Thurber drawings had a dog anywhere in sight. When the classic Thurber dog did show up, in the issue of February 6, 1932, it was not an incidental dog in a cartoon featuring humans. The dog was the star of the show — the main attraction, and it made its debut in a 16 part(!) spread that traveled across the magazine’s gutter. I’ll show you the first part here:
The entire piece can be found in his collections, The Seal In The Bedroom, The Thurber Carnival, and Thurber’s Dogs (to mention just a few). If you have a subscription to The New Yorker you can, of course, find it in the archive, on pages 22-23 of the February 6, 1932 issue. It’s online hereas well.
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
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