The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.

That Famous Thurber Spot Drawing for The New Yorker First, a brief reminder of what’s what: New Yorker “Spot” drawings are not New Yorker cartoons. Once upon a time, pre-Tina Brown era, Spots were ...

Artist, editor and writer Peter Richardson recalls the orign of Ian Gibson’s newspaper strip, “Annie Droid”, published in The ...