Weekend Spill: Barbara Smaller Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Tilley Watch Online, October 16-20, 2023; Q&A with Daryl Seitchik; Excerpt…From Lila Ash’s “Decodependence”

  Barbara Smaller Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Barbara Smaller (lower right), who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1996, joins the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast co-hosts Beth Lawler (upper left), Paul Nesja (upper right), and Nicole Chrolavicius. Listen here (it’s episode #129 for those keeping track).  __________________________________________________________________________ Tilley Watch Online, October 16-20, 2023 An end of

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Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of July 31, 2023

The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker  Note: the digital issue has not been posted as of yet (9:00 am this Monday)…I’m patching together today’s post using various information from other newyorker.com sources. I’ll correct any omissions, or errors, once the issue has been posted.    The

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Lee Lorenz, New Yorker Artist, And Former New Yorker Art & Cartoon Editor: 1932-2022

  Very sad news tonight from Martha Lorenz, that her father, Lee Lorenz, The New Yorker‘s art editor from 1973 -1993, and cartoon editor from 1993 – 1997, passed away Thursday morning at his home in Connecticut. Lee contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015.  Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, Lee attended Carnegie

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