Donnelly’s Women Laughing Documentary Film At The Montclair Film Festival Ms. Donnelly’s Women Laughing will be shown at the Montclair Film festival, Sunday, October 19, 2025. Following the screening there’ll be an “extended Q&A with director, Kathleen Hughes and Director/Subject, Liza Donnelly, and subjects Emily Flake, Amy Hwang, Bishakh Som, and Emily Sanders Hopkins.” More information here. For more on
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Follow up On CartoonStock’s AI Comics Generator A follow up to yesterday’s Spill post about CartoonStock’s use of what it calls “Ai-generated cartoons and comics.” The Spill has seen an email sent out yesterday late afternoon by CartoonStock to CartoonStock cartoonists with the heading, “Clarification on AI and CartoonStock’s Commitment to Cartoonists”. The email begins: “We’ve received some
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CartoonStock’s “Ai Generator Cartoons and Comics” Cartoonstock, a business that bills itself as “the world’s largest library of cartoons” now offers something called “Ai Generator cartoons and comics.” One wonders what the human beings who create cartoons for a living — or try to. It’s an exceptionally tough “business” these days — make of the competition. Here’s one of the
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Historical Marker I’ve no idea how many New Yorker cartoonists have been honored with a historical marker.* Here’s James Thurber’s in Columbus, Ohio: It rests outside of Thurber House. More here. _________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According
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