Cartoonist Mike Lynch on Dwindling Cartoon Markets; Mischa Richter on Attempted Bloggery; A New Yorker State of Mind Looks At The April 20, 1929 New Yorker

From Mike Lynch, May 2, 2018, “Another Market For Gag Cartoons is Going Going Gone” —Reader’s Digest is in the headlights here. _______________________________________________________________________  Attempted Bloggery on Mischa Richter Following up his E. Simms Campbell fest, Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery moves on to Mischa Richter. Looking forward to what he has come up with. See today’s Richter post here. ___________________________________________________________________ A

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The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor on Kanye and the Caption Contest; Commencement Speaker of Interest: Seth; A Favorite Blog; A New Yorker Cover Artist of Interest: Cannaday Chapman

The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor on Kanye and The Caption Contest Read what Emma Allen, the New Yorker‘s cartoon editor has to say about the Kanye Caption Contest thing going on. ______________________________________________________________________ Commencement Speaker of Interest: Seth All the info on the poster above and some more here. __________________________________________________________________________ A Spill Fave Blog: A New Yorker State of Mind: Reading

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Video of Interest: New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor Talks to Caption Contest Whiz Kid; New Yorker State of Mind’s Look at the March 30, 1929 New Yorker

Video of Interest: New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor Talks To Caption Contest Whiz Kid Part one of New Yorker cartoon editor, Emma Allen’s vid-chat with Alice Kassnove, the 9 year old Caption Contest Whiz Kid whose contest captions went viral not long ago.  See it here.  ________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State of Mind’s Latest Post One of the Spill‘s favorite blogs,

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Talk of Interest: Joe Dator; New Yorker State of Mind Looks at Ralph Barton; An Intersection of Steinberg, Walt Disney and Ungerer?; Stanley Kubrick and Peter Arno; Cartoon Companion Rates This Week’s New Yorker Cartoons

Talk of Interest: Joe Dator From The Pioneer, April 3, 2018, “New Yorker Cartoonist Shares Insight”—  a piece about a recent talk at Long Island University by one of the New Yorker‘s best contemporary cartoonists (above, right, a segment of his classic piece, How We Do It  from the New Yorker,  September 24 2012 ____________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State of

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