Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Tom Toro’s And To Think We Started As a Book Club…
The book is out next Tuesday. If you’re in the Hudson Valley, you can see Tom in conversation with yours truly at Oblong Books in Rhinebeck, NY, October 16th.
Here’s the October Toro book tour schedule:
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West Coast Exhibit Of Interest
San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum will be presenting The West Coaster: New Yorker Cartoons From The Other Side from October 11th – February 26, 2026. Participating in the exhibit is the aforementioned Mr. Toro, along with Zareen Choudhury, Eric Drooker, Lonnie Millsap, Mike Twohy, and Shannon Wheeler.
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Advantage, East Coast Cartoonists? Nah.
San Fran’s Cartoon Art Museum’s website copy contains a creative historical interpretation of pre-digital age west coast vs east coast New Yorker cartoonist contributors:
“…New Yorker artists based in and around Manhattan or nearby Connecticut had a distinct advantage over their peers as they could visit the office each Tuesday to deliver a new batch of rough sketches to the submissions editor, who would spend the week poring over them, then making a final decision by Friday as to which cartoons had made the cut and would be developed for the next issue, giving the east coasters a leg up on the competition when it came to securing a coveted spot in the pages of the celebrated magazine.”
I lightheartedly disagree that geography played any part, whatsoever, in the pre-digital age, and that East coast cartoonists had a “distinct advantage” and a “leg up” on the west coasters. The actual number of east coast cartoonists who came in to the office on a regular basis on Tuesdays was, percentage-wise, quite small. East coast cartoonists who elected not to go in to show their work to the art editor, Lee Lorenz, mailed-in their batches, via US mail, to arrive in time to be considered.