Here’s a Helen Hokinson original drawing we’ve had in the Spill archives for a while. Because of the Christmas tree theme it tends to get more attention around here at holiday time (meaning it’s hung on a wall). As you can see, the piece is in rough shape — I’m glad it survived whatever it went through. The drawing is
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Emma Allen On Otto Soglow’s “Spot” Drawings From The New Yorker, December 22, 2025, “Emma Allen On Otto Soglow’s Spot Art” Ms. Allen has been the magazine’s cartoon editor since May of 2017. ____________________ Otto Soglow’s A-Z Entry: Otto Soglow Born, Yorkville, NY, December 23, 1900. Died in NYC, April 1975. New Yorker work: 1925 -1974.Key collections: Pretty
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Kate Isenberg Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Kate Isenberg, who began contributing to The New Yorker in May of 2020, joins the always fun CCCP crew this week (it’s Episode #230 for those keeping track). Listen here! Above, clockwise from top left: Ms. Isenberg, co-hosts Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Vin Coca, and Nicole Chrlolavicius. ____________________________________________________________ Funny Times Podcast
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Happy 131st! –Above: “Come on, get hot!” published in The New Yorker April 4, 1936 This past Monday marked James Thurber’s 131st birthday. Here’s Thurber on when he began drawing: “I think it was 1902… I did my first drawings. My father was in politics — had been all his life — and although his three sons grew up to
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