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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The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg

                Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017.                                   The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was

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Weekend Spill: Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of January 4-8, 2021; More Spills: Barney Tobey, William Steig

The Tilley Watch Online: An end of week listing of artists contributing to newyorker.com features, January 4 – 8, 2021 The Daily Cartoon: Tim Hamilton, Brendan Loper, David Ostow, Zoe Si, Sofia Warren, Sarah Kempa. Daily Shouts: J.A.K (with Evan Waite), Olivia de Recat (with Julia Edelman), Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Donald Trump: Fire-Breather” & “Hello, Georgia?” Culture Desk: Emily Flake,

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