Fave Photo Of The Week: “West Coasters” Panel East Coaster New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Leighton, visiting out on the West Coast, attended last night’s West Coaster panel discussion at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, took the photo below, and was kind enough to send it along to the Spill. (Thank you, Robert!). Pictured l-r, Cartoon Art Museum curator, Andrew Farago,
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Kate Isenberg Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Kate Isenberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in May of 2020, joins the always fun CCCP crew this week (it’s Episode #230 for those keeping track). Listen here! Above, clockwise from top left: Ms. Isenberg, co-hosts Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Vin Coca, and Nicole Chrlolavicius. ____________________________________________________________ Funny Times Podcast
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Happy 131st! –Above: “Come on, get hot!” published in The New Yorker April 4, 1936 This past Monday marked James Thurber’s 131st birthday. Here’s Thurber on when he began drawing: “I think it was 1902… I did my first drawings. My father was in politics — had been all his life — and although his three sons grew up to
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Book Of Interest: Milt Gross At Judge 1923-1924 Milt Gross is a member of the Spill‘s One Club. That is, his work was published just once in The New Yorker. This collection, with essays and notes by Paul C. Tumey, was published in October of this year. Below is the one and only Milt Gross New Yorker cartoon. It was published
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