Friday Spill: Chris Weyant On The Caption Contest Podcast; A Mick Stevens Original Auctioned For A Song; Author Talk Of Interest: Liza Donnelly; Paul Karasik On Philip K. Dick; A New Yorker State Of Mind On The New Yorker’s 8th Anniversary Issue; More “Maus”

Chris Weyant On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The 50th New Yorker Caption Contest Podcast has been posted with Chris Weyant as the guest. Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Vin Coca are the hosts. Hear it here.  Chris Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here.  –Clockwise from top left: Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Chris

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Weekend Spill: A Gem From The Great Al Ross; Matchbook Arno; The Tilley Watch Online, February 1-4, 2022; More Spills: J.A.K., Spiegelman, The Old & The New Old

A Gem From The Great Al Ross Looking through the most recent addition to the Spill library, a bound volume (the Louisville Public Library’s loss, our gain) of New Yorkers from May through June of 1978, I came across this terrific drawing by the late great Al Ross. I surely studied this drawing back in that first week in May

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Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon…And Yesterday’s; A Q&A With Bob Eckstein; Spiegelman, Marvel, and the “Orange Skull”

A Back to school  Daily by Mark Thompson. Mr. Thompson began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010. Tim Hamilton delivered yesterday’s very Planet of the Apes-ish Daily. Mr. Hamilton began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit his website here. _______________________________ A Q&A With Bob Eckstein A short Q&A marking Bob Eckstein’s return to the Annual Writer’s Digest

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