Bruce Eric Kaplan Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Bruce Eric Kaplan (BEK) is the latest guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Listen to it here (It’s episode # 204 for those keeping track). Mr. Kaplan, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991, appears in the upper left of this screenshot.
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Two Unusual Covers I check Ebay everyday looking (hoping) for something Thurber I’ve never seen before. Yesterday two books showed up. Both have unusual covers (unusual in that I never would’ve guessed they had anything to do with a Thurber book). A coincidence: all of the titles shown were written by Thurber, but not illustrated by him (his eyesight was
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Government Cheese’s Fake New Yorker Cover My New Yorker colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly recently noticed a New Yorker magazine shown for a second (maybe a second-and-a-half) in the very first episode of the Apple TV series, “Government Cheese.” I took a screenshot of the moment the magazine appears, turned the image upside down, and sharpened it a little. It’s
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The Monday Tilley Watch takes a glancing look at the art and artists of the latest issue of The New Yorker The Cartoonists and Cartoons Ten cartoons, twelve cartoonists (Roland High did the Spots, and Lonnie Millsap supplied the Caption Contest drawing). No duos, that we know of. One newbie, Natalie Horberg, who is the 4th addition to the magazine’s
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