Friday Spill: Jason Chatfield Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; New Yorker Illustrator, Mark Zingarelli, 1952-2025; Lonnie Millsap At The L.A. Times Festival Of Books; Book On The Horizon…Bob Eckstein’s “Inspired By Cats: Writers And Their Mews(es)”

Jason Chatfield Is The Latest Guest on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast celebrates its 200th episode. Jason Chatfield, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, is on hand for the festivities. Listen here.  — Photo: clockwise from top left…co-host Nicole Chrolavicius, co-host Paul Nesja, Jason Chatfield, co-host Vin Coca, and co-host Beth Lawler. 

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Weekend Spill: Video Of Interest “A Century Of The New Yorker” From The New York Public Library; The Daily Cartoonist Gathers Centennial Articles; Tilley Watch Online, February 17-21, 2025; Bill Maher (Tries To) Decode Old New Yorker Cartoons; Liza Donnelly…”Happy Birthday To The New Yorker”; Appearance Of Interest…Bob Eckstein To Discuss “The Art Of Humor”; Attempted Bloggery Looks At Anatol Kovarsky and Ilonka Karasz Original Art

Video Of Interest From The New York Public Library “A Century Of The New Yorker” Here’s a link to “A Century Of The New Yorker” a nearly 15 minute film produced by the NYPL on the occasion of its exhibit of the same name. _____________________________________________________________________ The Daily Cartoonist Gathers New Yorker Centennial Pieces D.D. Degg over at The Daily Cartoonist

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Tuesday Spill: Yet Another Steinberg “View Of The World” Take-Off; Bob Eckstein’s “American Bystander Super Bowl Recap”; Buying My Own Book

Yet Another Steinberg Take-Off Should Saul Steinberg’s work be remembered in the future decades it will be for his “View Of The World” piece that appeared on the cover of the March 29, 1976 New Yorker.  In Deirdre Bair’s biography of Steinberg we learned that Steinberg went from cool (“cool” being an understatement) to warm (“warm” in this case meaning

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