It was great fun being onstage at The Columbus Museum of Art, along with Liza Donnelly, for the presentation to Roz Chast of the very first Thurber Prize for American Humor in Cartoon Art. Ms. Donnelly concluded her remarks with this: “The prize goes to someone who, like James Thurber, has shared her world view with unique drawings and masterfully
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Roz Chast Receives The First Thurber Prize for American Cartoon Art From Medium, via The Daily Cartoonist, June 1, 2024, this reporting by Liza Donnelly on Thursday night’s big to-do with Roz Chast in Columbus, Ohio. [the Spill will have more on the event tomorrow] — left: I asked Ms. Chast for
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This is a doubled-up Spill due to journeying to Thurber country — the town of Columbus in the state of Ohio — for the first-ever Thurber Prize For American Cartoon Art (presented Friday night along with the Thurber Prize for American Humor in Writing).The awards ceremony will be held at the Columbus Art Museum. The Spill will report on its
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Alta’s Altatude With so few outlets for single panel cartoons, and thus, so few cartoon collections produced, it’s always fun to see something new pop up. The west coast publication, Alta has published a booklet of cartoons, Altatude, containing a large number of New Yorker folks — I counted nearly 20 (consulting the Contributors page, below right, posted on social media
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