Friday Spill: Chast & Finck At The New Yorker’s 2025 Festival; Book News…Perlman, Campbell, Hwang, Kuper; Gag Recap, 1954-2025

Chast & Finck At The New Yorker Festival If you’re looking for something New Yorker cartoonist/cartoon-related at the upcoming New Yorker Festival, this is it: Roz Chast and Liana Finck will be in conversation, joined by the magazine’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen. From the magazine’s schedule: ____________________________________________________________________ Perlman’s Latest Hi, It’s Me Again, Asher Perlman‘s follow-up to Well,This Is Me

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Tuesday Spill: A Mick Stevens Exhibit On Martha’s Vineyard; Liza Donnelly On Amy Hwang; Audio Of Interest…Emily Sanders Hopkins With Marshall Hopkins; Oh The Places Cartoons Go!

A Mick Stevens Exhibit On Martha’s Vineyard One of the funniest people on the planet will be exhibiting (some of) his New Yorker work beginning this week. Mr. Stevens began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979. Mick Stevens A-Z Entry: Mick Stevens Born March 11, 1942, Portland, Oregon. New Yorker work: December 17, 1979- . Key collections: If Ducks

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Saturday Spill: National Cartoonists Society Nominees; The Tilley Watch Online, May 5-9, 2024

National Cartoonists Society Single Panel Nominees Three New Yorker folks have been nominated in the single panel cartoon category (the NCS calls the category “Gag Cartoons” but I can’t bring myself to call single panels that). The three: Amy Hwang, Dan Misdea, and Christopher Weyant. Amy Kurzweil was nominated in the “Online Comics –Long Form” category. New Yorker cover artist,

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