Weekend Spill: Deutsch, Barnicoat, Kuper, Karasik At Brooklyn Book Festival; Video Of Interest… Emily Sanders Hopkins In Conversation With Liza Donnelly; Tilley Watch Online, September 8-12, 2025

Deutsch, Barnicoat, Karasik, Kuper At Brooklyn Book Festival A number of New Yorker cartoonist contributors will appear (either in person or virtually) at this years Brooklyn Book Festival. Here they are, and where they’ll be…(if I missed someone, please let me know!) A virtual event including Rachel Deutsch, who began contributing to The New Yorker in October of 2022, and

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Thurber Thursday: From Japan…”The Dog Department”; Live At 4 Today, Emily Sanders Hopkins & Liza Donnelly In Conversation

From Japan: The Dog Department  The other day I ran across this interesting cover for the Japanese edition of Thurber’s The Dog Department. I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough Thurber dog drawings; this cover doesn’t disappoint. The book, edited by the fab Michael Rosen, was originally published in the US in 2001 (the US cover

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Wednesday Spill: Tom Toro Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest; Fave Photo Of The Day

Tom Toro Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest Tom Toro, who has shown up quite a bit on the Spill lately, turns up once again. This time he’s on a Spill fave site, the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Listen here!  Above, clockwise from top left…co-hosts VinCoca, Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Nicole Chrolavicius, and Mr. Toro. Visit Tom

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Tuesday Spill: Event: Lia Strasser & Bizzy Coy At Catskills Comedy Festival; Tom Toro At LitQuake; A New Yorker 100 Poster; Cartoonist In The News: Jon Adams

Event Of Interest: New Yorker Cartoonist Duo Strasser & Coy The duo of Lia Strasser and Bizzy Coy began contributing to The New Yorker in May of 2024. Below: online info about their upcoming appearance. Festival info here            ______________________________________________________________ Event Of Interest: Tom Toro   From Evenbright, this notice of a LitQuake appearance by Tom

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