Friday Spill: Two Podcasts Of Interest…Amy Kurzweil Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Pod; Thurber Scholar, Michael Rosen Guests On The Cartoon Pad Pod

Amy Kurzweil Guests On Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Amy Kurzweil joins co-hosts Beth Lawler and Vin Coca (with Nicole Chrolavicius subbing for Paul Nesja) in episode #111. Ms. Kurzweil began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit her website here.   _________________________________________________________________________ Thurber Scholar Michael Rosen Guests On Cartoon Pad Pod Friend of the Spill, Thurber Scholar, Michael Rosen, guests

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Friday Spill: Addams Biographer Linda Davis Guests On Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Fab biographer, Linda Davis (Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, and Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White) is the most recent guest on the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Photo above, from top left, going clockwise: Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Vin Coca, and Ms. Davis.  Listen here.  Here’s the must-have 1991 Charles Addams anthology mentioned by Ms. Davis on

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Weekend Spill: Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of May 8-12, 2023; More Spills…Ed Koren’s Film Debut; Documentary Film: “Saul Steinberg’s Line”; Ivan Ehlers’ Graphic Account Of The Writers’ Strike Picket Line; A ToonStack Tribute To Sam Gross; Wertz Reviewed; Finck’s TED; Chast & Flake Talk; Caption Contest Podcast Begins New Feature; Happy 90th, Sid Harris!

Tilley Watch Online…The Week Of May 8-12, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Maggie Larson, Ellis Rosen, Brooke Bourgeois, Adam Douglas Thompson, David Sipress, Brendan Loper. Daily Shouts: Suerynn Lee, (Ginny Hogan) with J.A.K. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Weinstein, Cosby, And Trump Play Around” ___________________________________________________________-  

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Friday Spill: Bruce Petty…1929-2023; Early Release…New Yorker Cover; Video Interview Of Interest…Zareen Choudhury; Amy Kurzweil’s New Book; Ed Himelblau Is Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Guest

Bruce Petty…1929-2023 Mr. Petty, who contributed 62 cartoons to The New Yorker between 1959 and 1969, died yesterday at age 93. From The Daily Cartoonist, April 6, 2023: Bruce Petty And here’s an obit from his home country: The Sunday Morning Herald, April 6, 2023, “Bruce Petty, Cartoonist, Sculptor, and Oscar Winner, Dies Age 93”  His first New Yorker cartoon

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