Wednesday Spill: Sofia Warren’s Cartoon Caption Contest Video; An Award For Roz Chast; More Spills…A Future Project, A Book Launch

Sofia Warren’s Cartoon Caption Contest Video   The New Yorker has posted a short video with cartoonist Sofia Warren, talking to us about one of her Cartoon Caption Contest drawings. From the post, this text: “In a very rare glance behind the velvet curtain, we’re revealing the original, intended caption for one of our weekly Cartoon Caption Contest drawings.” Sofia

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Weekend Spill: “At Wit’s End” Back Cover Reveal; The Tilley Watch Online, August 19-23, 2024; Hartley Lin Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Sunday Update…Dan Misdea Wins NCS Single Panel Cartoon Reuben Award

                                             “At Wit’s End” Back Cover Reveal  The cover of At Wit’s End, a collection of 52 New Yorker cartoonist portraits (Foreword by The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen; essays by yours truly), has been online for a

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Friday Spill: Just Arrived…”At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker”; Article Of Interest…Paul Noth; Harry Bliss’s Graphic Memoir, “You Can Never Die”

                                 Just In: At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker Was very pleased to find this advance copy in the mail of At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker (it’ll be out this November, from Clarkson-Potter). Alen MacWeeney has photographed over 50 of

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Wednesday Spill: A Bunch O’ Books On The Horizon

A number of books by or about New Yorker cartoonists are on the way. Yippy!  Here’s a round-up of all known to me, in order of their pub dates, beginning with the soonest (If I’ve left anyone out, please let me know): May 14th…   Bob Eckstein, Footnotes From The Most Fascinating Museums (Princeton Architectural Press). Mr. Eckstein began contributing

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