Mary 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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Thurber Thursday: The First Published Thurber Drawing; Latest Guest On The Caption Contest Podcast…Marisa Acocella
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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Friday Spill: David Remnick Laughs; Thurber Prize Finalists Announced; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Guest…Jeremy Nguyen; Attempted Bloggery On Two More Auctioned Arnos
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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Friday Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A Nick Downes Cartoon Collection; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
A New Cartoon Collection From Nick Downes From Humorist Books, Polly Wants A Lawyer! from Nick Downes, who began contributing to The New Yorker since 1998. As Emma Allen, The New Yorker’s cartoon editor says in her blurb on the book’s back cover, Mr. Downes’s drawings are “fabulously bizarre, twisted and sometimes macabre.” Link here to Nick Downes’s website.
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