Larry Wood’s Your Caption Has Been Selected Text from the publisher: A behind-the-scenes look at The New Yorker cartoon caption contest, its history, how it’s judged, and the secrets to writing a winning caption. Mr. Wood has advanced to The New Yorker‘s Cartoon Caption
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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 Cover: Trump by Blitt The Cartoonists And Cartoons: The first single issue of the year. Fourteen cartoons, fifteen cartoonists (Barry Blitt has the cover). No duos, that we know of. No newbies. The longest active contributing cartoonist in the
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E.B White and James Thurber — the names go together like soup and sandwich, or, um…horse and carriage. New Yorker history buffs will recall that Thurber’s first book, Is Sex Necessary, was co-authored with E.B. White, and that the two shared an office at The New Yorker in their earliest years at the magazine. It was White who fished a
Read moreHappy 93, Edward Frascino! The Spill wishes the wonderful Ed Frascino a very happy birthday. His latest cartoon appears in this week’s issue of The New Yorker (see it here in this slideshow of work). Mr. Frascino’s A-Z entry: Edward Frascino Born, Bronx, NY. (“near the zoo”), November 15, 1930. New Yorker work: September 4, 1965 – . Collection: Avocado
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