A duo on this week’s Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (Episode #176 for those keeping track): Shannon Wheeler, and Ken Krimstein. above: from top left, clockwise: Mr. Krimstein, CCCP co-host, Paul Nesja, CCCP co-host Nicole Chrolavicius, Mr. Wheeler. Mr. Wheeler began contributing to The New Yorker in 2009, and Mr. Krimstein in 2000. Listen to the podcast here. Link here
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Edward Koren’s Supermarketing Packet The Spill‘s archives are so much richer because of folks who send objets d’New Yorker cartoon art this way. I’m so grateful for the generosity shown the Spill. A recent arrival is this small postcard size advertising packet featuring the late great Edward Koren‘s art. I looked though all the materials within the packet but could
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Funny Stuff Authors Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast This week’s guests on the always fun Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast are Phil Witte and Rex Hesner, the co-authors of the just released Funny Stuff: How Great Cartoonists Make Great Cartoons (featured in yesterday’s Spill post). Shown above, clockwise from the top left: Rex Hesner, Paul Nesja, Phil Witte, and
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Charles Addams’ Biographer Linda Davis On MAD Article of Interest: Charles Addams’s biographer, Linda Davis, on the MAD exhibit currently up at the Norman Rockwell Museum. From The Jewish Federation Of The Berkshires, “Mad About Mad: An Iconoclast Comes To The Norman Rockwell Museum” More information about the exhibit here. _______________________________________________________________________ Maddie Dai, who began contributing to The New
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