James Thurber

“We have something uncomfortable to share with you: Thurber House is struggling to remain open and fulfill our mission,” reads the organization’s fundraiser page.

"It’s not the ink—it’s the think that makes a cartoon,” wrote longtime cartoon editor for “The New Yorker” magazine, Robert Mankoff. That’s fitting with James Thurber’s 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…