Wednesday Spill: Latest “Cartoon Pad Podcast” Guest: Ivan Ehlers; Latest Addition To The Spill Cartoon Library…Joe Farris’s “A Soldier’s Sketchbook: From The Front Lines Of World War II”

Latest Cartoon Pad Podcast Guest: Ivan Ehlers The Cartoon Pad duo, New Yorker cartoonists Michael Shaw & Bob Eckstein, are back with a brand new pod featuring Ivan Ehlers, who began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 2021. The episode can be found here.  _________________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The Spill Cartoon Library: Joe Farris’s A Soldier’s Sketchbook Very

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Weekend Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Library…William Steig’s 1st Collection; The Latest Cartoon Pad Guest: Marisa Acocella; New ToonStack Posted

Latest Addition To The Spill’s Library…William Steig’s 1st Collection It’s taken awhile to get hold of a dust jacketed copy of William Steig’s very first cartoon collection, Man About Town but finally one has arrived here at Spill headquarters. Published in 1932 by Ray Long & Richard R. Smith; hard cover, unpaginated, on good paper stock that has held the

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Tuesday Spill: Robert Kraus’s “Monster In The Basement” (With Lee Lorenz!); Video Of Interest: Liza Donnelly, Troublemaker; Michael Shaw & Bob Eckstein’s Latest Cartoon Pad

Robert Kraus’s “Monster In The Basement” (With Lee Lorenz!) Friend of the Spill, David Pomerantz has sent in this outta-the-blue-never-woulda- believed-it-in-a-million-years story about a 1962 homemade horror film by New Yorker cartoonist, Robert Kraus, starring, of all people, Lee Lorenz.  Link here for the full story (with more photos) in Famous Monsters  magazine (the story begins on page 58).  —My

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