Chris Weyant On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The 50th New Yorker Caption Contest Podcast has been posted with Chris Weyant as the guest. Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Vin Coca are the hosts. Hear it here. Chris Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here. –Clockwise from top left: Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Chris
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A Thurber-Inspired Ice Cream Jeni’s, an ice cream company based in Thurber’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio created a Thurber-inspired ice cream: Juniper & Lemon Curd. Read about it here If anyone knows of other New Yorker cartoonist inspired ice cream flavors, please let me know! Surely there must’ve been a Charles Addams flavor…Lurch Lime… Pugsley Peach… _____________________________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s entry
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Arnold Roth With Johnny Carson…Jack Ziegler With David Letterman…Bruce McCall With David Letterman Arnie Roth, who just turned 93, waaaay back in 1981 on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. And here’s the great Jack Ziegler with David Letterman in June of 1983: …and Bruce McCall in one of his several appearances with David Letterman (December, 1982) The A-Z Spill
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Pub Day For Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists It’s the “official” pub day for Liza Donnelly’s new edition of her 2005 classic Funny Ladies. This new edition is a must-have for any cartoon-centric library (I’d say that even if I wasn’t married to Ms. Donnelly). This morning I reached out to Ms. Donnelly, currently in Manhattan,
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