Tuesday Spill: Jason Chatfield On A Year Ago Today In NYC; Solved! A Charles Addams Mystery Drawing

Jason Chatfield On A Year Ago Today In NYC Mr. Chatfield** posted the below earlier today on Facebook. It appears here with his permission:  **Mr. Chatfield’s A-Z Spill entry: Jason Chatfield  Born, Perth, Australia, 1984. New Yorker work: July 10, 2017 — . Website: jasonchatfield.com/   Mort Gerberg’s A-Z entry: Mort Gerberg Born, March 11, 1931, New York, NY. New

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A New Yorker Puzzler Solved Exactly One Year Later

Exactly one year ago today I posted the A Sunday Puzzler piece below. This afternoon, while going through a newly arrived (but old) book, E.B. White: A Bibliography, by A.J. Anderson (The Scarecrow Press, 1978), I came across the answer to the puzzle, efficiently explained in one sentence by Mr. Anderson in his Introduction. Forget the very beginning about the

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Liza Donnelly Talks About Her Upcoming Book, Very Funny Ladies, Working At The New Yorker, And So Much More

In this interview via Irish Stew, “Liza Donnelly: Visual Journalist, New Yorker Cartoonist,Speaker, Feminist”, the long-time New Yorker contributor talks about her career, the upcoming new edition of her classic book Funny Ladies, live-drawing, and so much more. Shown above right: a rough version of the Very Funny Ladies cover. The book will be out this November. Ms. Donnelly’s A-Z

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