Liza Donnelly’s Women Laughing Plays To A Packed House At The Society Of Illustrators — Photo: Moderator, Judith Mizrachy, Emily Flake, Roz Chast, and Liza Donnelly. Photo: Frank PR Women Laughing, a documentary film featuring women cartoonists of The New Yorker Magazine, played to a sold out crowd last night at the cartoonist/illustrator mecca, The Society of Illustrators. The event
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As posted here yesterday, Emily Flake has been awarded this year’s Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art. The Spill congratulates Emily on the award! Liza Donnelly (who, in partnership with Thurber House and this cartoonist, initiated the award) wrote on her Substack two years ago when the prize was first awarded: “The prize goes to someone who, like
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Thurber House announced this morning that Emily Flake has been awarded the 2026 Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art . From Thurber House:”Awarded annually, the Thurber Prize for American Humor is one of the highest recognitions of the art of humor writing and cartooning in the United States.” The prize was first awarded in 2024 to Roz Chast;
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Women Laughing To Screen At MoCCA 2026, Sunday, March 29th –photo: Eric Korenman Info here _______________________________________________________ Show & Tell: John Updike’s Steinberg Original At a recent public appearance in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Michael Updike, John Updike’s third child, lead into reading from Selected Letters Of John Updike (Knopf, 2025; Edited by James Schiff) with a “show and tell” of the original
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