Weekend Spill: Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Emily Flake & Ellis Rosen; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 29 – December 3, 2021

Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Ellis Rosen & Emily Flake New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw, interview their colleague Ellis Rosen in the latest episode of The Cartoon Pad. Listen here.  Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999, and Mr. Rosen in 2016. _____________________________________________________________ And over on the Cartoon Caption Contest

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Weekend Spill: Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest: Drew Dernavich; The Tilley Watch Online: November 22-26, 2021

Personal History: Using A Sondheim Song Title I don’t have a good sense of where most of my drawings come from. Mostly, they just show up, and I put ’em down on cheap paper. The above drawing does have a small bit of a past — at least the caption does. My mother was a fan of Frank Sinatra. While

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Thurber Thursday: The Last Thurber Piece?; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

  According to Harper’s, “The Future, If Any, Of Comedy… or, where do we non-go from here” published in its December 1961 issue is “believed to be the last piece Mr. Thurber wrote.” As you see in the scan below, it first appeared in London, in The Times Literary Supplement.  It appeared on US newsstands via Harper’s the month Thurber

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