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鈥淲e have something uncomfortable to share with you: Thurber House is struggling to remain open and fulfill our mission,鈥� reads the organization鈥檚 fundraiser page.

"It鈥檚 not the ink鈥攊t鈥檚 the think that makes a cartoon,鈥� wrote longtime cartoon editor for 鈥淭he New Yorker鈥� magazine, Robert Mankoff. That鈥檚 fitting with James Thurber鈥檚 style and what he brought to cartooning in the 20th century, according to scholar Michael Rosen.

James Thurber, a famous cartoonist and humorist, recreated the city of Columbus through his stories that toggled between his own reality and his pure鈥�