Over on Language Log yesterday, I assembled a collection of James Thurber cartoons on the relations between the sexes, and that reminded me of favorite Thurber cartoons on other topics — in particular, this one:
The caption: “Touché!”
When my booklet Mistakes was published, this was the image I wanted for the cover art — now, there’s a serious mistake — but the fee for it turned out to be too steep.
Other Thurber drawings:
the cast-iron lawn dog (link)
It’s a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you’ll be amused by its presumption. (link)
What have you done with Dr. Millmoss? (link)
The link to that last image is broken, so here the cartoon is again:
July 31, 2012 at 10:49 am |
I am at the moment unable to find an online instance of one my favorites, in which a character in what I remember as a “Wild West” saloon confronts another by saying aggressively, “I beg to differ with you!”
October 1, 2012 at 2:17 pm |
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June 30, 2015 at 7:45 am |
[…] a Carl Rose idea. Harold Ross thought Thurber’s style might be a better fit for Rose’s “Touche!” as Thurber’s people seemed “bloodless”). Some artists used their own ideas and […]
April 4, 2017 at 9:14 am |
Well, I somehow stumbled across this blog and on finding the image of the “touché” cartoon I need to say that as a child I grew up under the original drawing of the cartoon. It was on sketchbook type paper, framed above my bed. Kinda gave me the creeps! I wonder what it would be worth today
April 4, 2017 at 10:43 am |
If that’s a Thurber original, it would indeed be worth a good bit. Did you grow up in the part of CT where your business is now? That would be close to where Thurber lived in his later years.