Tuesday Spill: Late Word On Two Events With Ken Krimstein; Interview Of Interest…Sarah Akinterinwa; A Deep Dive Into The Jan. 28, 1933 New Yorker; The Cartoon Pad Pod Asks For Your “Burning Cartoon Questions”

Late Word On Two Events With Ken Krimstein My apologies for this late word, but here are two Zoom events with Ken Krimstein coming up today, one in just an hour. Mr. Krimstein, who began contributing his cartoons to The New Yorker in 2000, is the author of the highly praised When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies Of Six

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Friday Spill: Attempted Bloggery Looks At A 1938 Issue Of “Stage”; New Yorker State Of Mind Deep Dives Into The December 24, 1938 Issue; More Spills: Blitt’s Kvetchbook, Yesterday’s Daily Cartoon

    Attempted Bloggery Looks At A 1938 Issue Of Stage   From Attempted Bloggery, January 7, 2022, “The New Yorker Advertises In Stage, April 1938“— a fun look at some of the art, including the new-to-my-eyes George Price illustration shown here.       A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At  The Dec 24, 1932 New Yorker This

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Weekend Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind Deep Dives The Issue Of Oct. 22, 1932; The Tilley Watch Online, December 6-10, 2021; Ken Krimstein’s NYT’s Book Review “Sketchbook”

A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The October 22, 1932 Issue A fun Sunday read from the always informative blog, A New Yorker State OF Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine. The issue’s cover is by Peter Arno. Mr. Arno’s entry on the A-Z: Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8, 1904, New

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Weekend Spill: Happy Halloween!: An Ink Spill Interview Compendium; The Tilley Watch Online, October 25-29, 2021; Catching Up With Two Fave Blogs: A New Yorker State Of Mind & Attempted Bloggery

                                                        Happy Halloween! If the above long ago rejected proposed cover (for The New Yorker) looks familiar it’s because I sometimes drag it out and plunk it down in this spot on Halloween.

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