Weekend Spill: Arantza Pena Popo’s “The Mole” Nominated For An Ignatz Award; Fave Photo Of The Weekend…Stevens And Karasik; Liza Donnelly On Sarah Akinterinwa; Tilley Watch Online, August 11-15, 2025

Arantza Pena Popo Nominated For An Ignatz Award

 

Arantza Pena Popo, who began contributing to The New yorker in 2020 has been nominated for an Ignatz Award in the category of Outstanding Minicomic, forThe Mole, her self-published comic.

On Instagram, Ms. Popo said The Mole is “about a depraved lesbian who falls in love with women’s mole and has a manipulative relationship with her.”

Visit Arantza Pena Popo’s website here

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Fave Photo Of The Weekend: Stevens & Karasik

Standing in front of a wall of guaranteed very funny cartoons is long-time New Yorker contributor, Mick Stevens at the opening of his exhibit on Martha’s Vineyard, along with New Yorker cartoonist colleague, Paul Karasik.

–photo courtesy of Mr. Karasik.

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Liza Donnelly On Sarah Akinterinwa

The latest in Liza Donnelly’s series of spotlighted cartoonists appearing in her upcoming documentary, Women Laughing is Sarah Akinterinwa, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2020. Read here. 

Ms. Akinterinwa’s Instagram

 

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The Tilley Watch Online, August 11-15, 2025

An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features

The Daily Cartoon: Dan Misdea, Ben Schawartz, Guy Richards Smit, Peter Kuper, Natalie Horberg.

See them here in a slide show

 

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