Janis Joplin’s Thurber; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon (And Yesterday’s); Donnelly At The College Of New Jersey; Fave Photo Of The Day

Janis Joplin’s Thurber From the Dept Of I Didn’t See This Coming: Reading through Dwight Garner’s New York Times review of the new Janis Joplin biography, “Janis,” by Holly George- Warren: “She named a dog Thurber, after James Thurber, the New Yorker humor writer.” — left: Thurber and Ms. Joplin   ___________________________________________________ Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon From Barbara Smaller,

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Weekend Spill: Signing Of Interest: J.A.K. At Word Brooklyn; Eckstein’s Books; The Tilley Watch Online, October 21-25, 2019

Signing Of Interest: J.A.K. Mark your calendar: J.A.K. will be signing The White Man’s Guide To Male Writers Of The Western Canon November 13th at Word Brooklyn.  Info here. Mr. Katzenstein has been contributing to The New Yorker since 2014.     _________________________________________________________ Eckstein’s Books From East Coast/West Coast/North Coast, October 27, 2019,  “Bob Eckstein and His World’s Greatest Bookstores”

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More Gahan Wilson; A Peter Arno Rarity From The Bloom Vault; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Humor Mag Of Interest: American Bystander #12; Today’s Daily Shouts…By Amy Kurzweil; Preview Of Interest on Salon: Shannon Wheeler’s “Mueller Report”

More Gahan Wilson From 27East.com, October 24, 2019, “Cartoonist Gahan Wilson Is Looking To Find His Way”  — this piece by Annette Hinkle on one of the modern masters of the form. …and this Chicago Sun-Times column from Neil Steinberg, October 24, 2019, “‘Lucky to be alive’ — morbid cartoonist faces dementia” _________________________________________________________ A Peter Arno Rarity From The Bloom

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