Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week; Ken Levine Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest; Interview Of Interest…Peter Kuper; Latest Addition To The Spill Library…William Steig’s “Strutters & Fretters”

Fave Photo Of The Week Emily Nussbaum (a New Yorker writer, shown below top row, center)) posted this photo on social media yesterday. The photo was taken in Ellenville, New York for the occasion of a panel “Drawing Funny: Jewish Humor and the Art of the New Yorker Cartoon” at the Borscht Belt Fest 2025. Ms. Nussbaum moderated. In the

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Friday Spill: A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Drawings!; Interview Of Interest…Peter Kuper; Jose Arroyo Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Paul Karasik On Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Podcast; Fun Event: Liana Finck! Asher Perlman! David Ostow! Avi Steinberg!

  A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Cartoons! Joe Dator, one of the great modern New Yorker cartoonists, is offering a number of his original drawings published in the magazine. Below are just two of over a dozen available. See all the work here! This drawing appeared in The New Yorker November 28, 2016.            

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Friday Spill: Attempted Bloggery On An Addams Family Redraw; Video Clip Of Interest…Ken Krimstein On French TV; Avi Steinberg Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast: Liana Finck Talks To Publishers Weekly About Her New Book

                      Attempted Bloggery Looks At An Addams Family Redraw A Spill fave blog, Attempted Bloggery, takes a good long look at a classic Charles Addams drawing — both the published version and a redraw:  “The Art of the Redraw: The Addams Family Children Back From Camp.” _____________________________________________________________________ Video Clip Of

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Wednesday Spill: Happy 93, Ed Frascino!; Fave Photo Of The Week: Cartoonists Turn Out For Kurzweil Book Event

Happy 93, Edward Frascino! The Spill wishes the wonderful Ed Frascino a very happy birthday. His latest cartoon appears in this week’s issue of The New Yorker (see it here in this slideshow of work). Mr. Frascino’s A-Z entry:  Edward Frascino  Born, Bronx, NY. (“near the zoo”), November 15, 1930. New Yorker work: September 4, 1965 – . Collection: Avocado

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