Tuesday Spill: Jason Chatfield’s Substack; 68 Years Ago In The New Yorker

Jason Chatfield’s Substack Jason Chatfield (the Spill‘s Sports correspondent) has a new Substack, “New York Cartoons.”   It leads off with “Coming To America” — fun (free!) interesting writing (and more) from Mr. Chatfield who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017.  You can subscribe here.  ___________________________________________________________________ 68 Years Ago In The New Yorker I keep a list of all

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Wednesday Spill: Very Funny Ladies Panel At MoCCA Arts Fest This Saturday With Roz Chast, Maggie Larson, Liza Donnelly, Barbara Smaller, and Bishakh Som; 70 Years Ago In The New Yorker

  Here’s a link to the MoCCA Arts Fest 2022 website for even more info. Roz Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978, Liza Donnelly in 1979, Maggie Larson in 2017, Barbara Smaller in 1996, and Bishakh Som in 2018.  ____________________________________________________                          70 Years Ago In The New

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Wednesday Spill: In One Issue

In One Issue Paging through a long ago issue of The New Yorker — the issue of  January 21, 1956 to be exact — I was struck by the number of ads using the work of New Yorker cartoonists.  There’s Peter Arno  for The Pajama Game (the drawing appeared on the cover of Playbill and on the soundtrack album), and

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Friday Spill: Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook; More Spills: Blitt, Larson, Fitzgerald; Personal History: Desk Moving, Pt. 3

Karasik’s NYTs Book Review Sketchbook From The New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2021, “The Books We Loved As Children Can Comfort Us At The End” — a graphic account by Paul Karasik, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999. ______________________________________________________________ …Blitt’s Kvetchbook, December 31, 2021,  “Ringing In The New (On Zoom)” ….Today’s Daily Cartoon, from Maggie

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