Friday Spill: The New Yorker’s Roger Angell Has Died; Virtual Conversation Of Interest…David Sipress & Pat Byrnes; Lars Kenseth Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

The New Yorker’s Roger Angell Has Died

Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on Mr. Angell, who died today at age 101.

And here’s The New York Times obit, written by Dwight Garner.   

Here’s a link to Mr. Angell’s wonderful piece on New Yorker cartoons, “Congratulations! It’s A Baby”  that appeared in the magazine December 15, 1997: (sorry, not sure if this will be available to non-subscribers).

The opening lines of the piece: 

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Virtual Conversation Of Interest: David Sipress & Pat Byrnes

On June 9th, The Mark Twain House & Museum will host a free virtual conversation, “What’s So Funny?” with New Yorker contributors David Sipress and Pat Byrnes. Info here.

Both Mr. Sipress and Mr. Byrnes began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. 

Pat Byrnes’s website.

David Sipress’s website.

The Ink Spill Interview: David Sipress:  

Part 1

Part 2

Another virtual conversation: David Sipress & Liana Finck

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Lars Kenseth Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Lars Kenseth, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, joins the Caption Contest Podcast hosts Paul Nesja, and Beth Lawler (Vin Coca marked “absent” for the interview).  

Here’s Mr. Kenseth’s website. 

From the Spill archive: “Checking In: Lars Kenseth Talks About ‘Deodorant People’ And His First New Yorker Cartoon”