A Live Event Reminder: This Sunday A Gathering Of 14 New Yorker Artists This Sunday, May 1st at 2pm. Info/tickets here. Each artist will read a 650 word self-penned essay. The artists will address the question: What’s So Funny? Liza Donnelly, who co-curated the event, will live-draw throughout the proceedings. More about Read650 here.
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Event Of Interest: Liana Finck & David Sipress In Conversation Two days in a row of noting a pairing of cartoonists! “Dreaming and Drawing: A Conversation with New Yorker Cartoonists Liana Finck and David Sipress” Liana finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. David Sipress began contributing to the magazine in 1998. Visit his
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More Bill Lee In a follow-up to Steven Heller’s blog post of a couple of days ago, D.D. Degg over on The Daily Cartoonist fills in more Bill Lee puzzle pieces, but still no answer to “Whatever Happened To…Bill Lee?” (My own interactions with Mr. Lee began and ended in the late 1970s after he, in his role as OMNI‘s
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Back To The Book Barn Yesterday’s gloomy Charles Addamsy weather caused me to want to take a drive north to Columbia County to my favorite used book store, Rodgers Book Barn in Hillsdale, New York (Spill readers might remember this post about Rodgers from a few years back). The reason it’s fun to drive there in “weather” is because of
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