Note: Hoping yesterday’s tech issue has been fixed! Some material (the Comic-Con book news) from the semi-posted-Saturday Spill is repeated here. The San Diego 2025 Comic-Con Souvenir Book…And an Editing Glitch Addressed The 2025 Comic-Con online-only Souvenir Book can be read here. I was honored to be asked to write a New Yorker cartoon-centric piece (“A Century of Ink
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To Spill Readers: Due to technical difficulties today’s Spill post was not published in its completed form. Thanks for your patience as I try to resolve the issue.
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Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her
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Thurber Couldn’t Draw? Pshaw! Whenever James Thurber’s drawings come up in conversation (outside of this household) it almost never fails that someone will say, almost as an aside, “But of course he couldn’t draw.” For me, those have always been fightin’ words. Thurber was fond of telling this story (you can see him telling it here at the 16:00 mark):
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