I've been reading and re-reading S. J. Perelman since I was a teenager. Like many my age, I first discovered his work through Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, the films he co-wrote for the Marx Brothers.



 This is an interview I caught on CUNY television this weekend. I don't know how long they keep these links up so you may want to catch it fast if you're at all interested. Perelman talks about his beginnings as a cartoonist, the writers he imitated while developing his art, his writing for the Marx Brothers as well as his many years at the New Yorker.

Day at Night: S. J. Perelman, humorist and playwright, Host: James Day. Classic public television talk program from 1973-1974.

 Since this is primaritly an illustration blog I added some dustjackets from Perelman's books.

thanks to all who contributed scans and jpegs for this post.

But enough about me