Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast With Guest Navied Mahdavian This weeks Cartoon Caption Contest Pod guest is Navied Mahdavian, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. Above, clockwise, beginning top left: co-hosts Beth Lawler and Paul Nesja, Mr. Mahdavian, and co-host Vin Coca. __________________________________________________________________ Latest Cartoon Pad Pod Posted Following a semi-brief hiatus, New Yorker cartoonists Bob
Read moreMary Lawton Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mary Lawton, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, is interviewed by that fun co-hostin’ Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast trio of Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, and Vin Coca. Listen here. photo above: clockwise, from top left, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Vin Coca, Mary Lawton _____________________________________________________________________ More
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The Very First Published Thurber Drawing Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography, the must-have book for Thurbermaniacs tells us that Thurber’s very first published drawing in a periodical, shown above*, was in Ohio State University’s Sun-Dial, November, 1917. It was followed by seven more drawings in the same paper, the last appearing March 7, 1918. The timeline for Thurber’s
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David Remnick Laughs Mr. Remnick, The New Yorker‘s editor, was a guest on Inside The Hill the other day. See his reaction when presented with a couple of cartoon ideas by a couple of cartoon characters (the cartoon section begins at the 3:40 mark). _____________________________________________________________________________ Thurber Prize Finalists Announced ____________________________________________________________________________ The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest:
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