Tuesday Spill: Hilary Campbell’s Gallery Show Opening Thursday; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Pod: More Spills…

Hilary Campbell’s Gallery Show “Today: 10 Years Of Cartooning” Thursday   Hilary Campbell, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, is interviewed here about Thursday’s opening at ArtsClub. Visit her website.  Her new book, out January 10,  is What Did I Do Today?    ______________________________________________________________ Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Pod It’s always fun to hear The Cartoon Caption

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Friday Spill: Facebook New Yorker Cartoon Contest Caption Group’s “Greetings, Rejects!”

Facebook Group’s “Greetings, Rejects!” Beth Lawler, who began the Facebook group, Caption Contest Rejects & Enthusiasts, has posted “Greetings, Rejects!” a fun cartoonist-centric homage to The New Yorker‘s annual holiday poem, “Greetings, Friends” (originally written by Frank Sullivan, then Roger Angell, and now Ian Frazier). My thanks to Ms. Lawler, and group member, Carol Lasky (the idea for the poem

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Friday Spill: Case For Pencils Spotlights Sarah Kempa; Trevor Hoey Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Pod; New Yorker’s Top Instagram Cartoons of ’22

Case for Pencils Spotlights Sarah Kempa This week, Jane Mattimoe’s wonderful Case For Pencils takes a look at Sarah Kempa’s tools of the trade.  Link here!  Sarah Kempa began contributing her work to The New Yorker in January of this year.  Links to her website, Instagram, etc., on the Case For Pencils site.    _________________________________________________________ Trevor Hoey Guests On The

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The Spill’s Traditional Thanksgiving Cartoon; Bob Eckstein Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Continuing a Spill Thanksgiving tradition (and a chance for this one to see the light of day again), this one of mine from The New Yorker, October 16, 2006.  _____________________________________________________________ Bob Eckstein Is the Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast  Bob Eckstein, who began contributing to the magazine in 2007,  is the world’s leading Snowman expert, as well

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