Thurber Thursday: You’re Kidding, Right?; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest: Michael Shaw; American Bystander #18 In The House

You’re Kidding, Right? Here’s what the cover of the original edition of James Thurber’s Let Your Mind Alone! looks like. It was published exactly eighty-four years and one day ago (for those not wanting to do the math: September 8, 1937). I think it’s quite a beautiful cover, but then I think almost every Thurber book cover is beautiful. Here

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Weekend Spill: P.C. Vey Interviewed on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Just In: Krimstein’s “When I Grow Up”; TMI On ToonStack; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of August 16-20, 2021

P.C. Vey Interviewed On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Here’s the very latest episode of The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast…this one with guest, P.C. Vey.  Enjoy! Mr. Vey began contributing to The New Yorker in 1993 (in the episode you’ll learn he was contributing ideas — Charles Addams’s name pops up — previous to his own drawings showing up in

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Weekend Spill: Latest ToonStack Posted; Tilley Watch Online July 5-9, 2021

Latest ToonStack Posted Sunday is ToonStack day. The latest, with this week’s theme,Travel, is here.  Contributing New Yorker cartoonists this time ’round are Amy Hwang, Amy Kurzweil, Jason Chatfield, Ellis Rosen, Kendra Allenby, Hilary Campbell, and Leise Hook, and Johnny DiNapoli. __________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online: The Week of July 5-9, 2021 An end of week listing of New Yorker

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