Friday Spill: Early Release Of The April 7, 2025 Cover; Tommy Siegel Is The Latest Guest On the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Paul Karasik Talks Paul Auster; Fave Photo Of The Week…Allen & Chast

Early Release: Barry Blitt’s Cover for Next Week’s Issue As they do every so often, The New Yorker has early released its next cover. In a short piece on its website, the magazine notes that Mr. Blitt has borrowed “the visual imagery of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”

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Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Day…Perlman, Si, Donnelly, Allen; A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Deep; Attempted Bloggery On Mary Petty; A Return Visit To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

  From last night’s Society of Illustrators “Cartoonists In Conversation,” l-r: panelists Asher Perlman, Zoe Si, moderator Liza Donnelly, and The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (behind them, on the wall, two New Yorker originals: one by Helen Hokinson and the other by Otto Soglow. They’re just two of the 100+ New Yorker originals included in the Society’s current exhibit,

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Tuesday Spill: Reminder…Society Of Illustrators Panel Discussion This Thursday With Liza Donnelly, Emma Allen, Asher Perlman, Zoe Si; An Overlooked Covers Collection…”Seasons At The New Yorker”

  “New Yorker Cartoonists In Conversation”  Reminder! There’s a Society Of Illustrators Panel Discussion this Thursday  March 6 at 6:30, withThe New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Emma Allen, cartoonists Asher Perlman and Zoe Si. Liza Donnelly is moderating. While you’re there, be sure to take in the terrif exhibit, “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration” ____________________________________________________________  Seasons At The

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Wednesday Spill: Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles

      Eustace Blows Out 100 Candles   The New Yorker magazine put on the Ritz last night (or, more specifically, put on the Jean’s) for its 100th birthday party. Happily, the weather cooperated — no freak winter storms, sub-freezing temps, or torrential rain — just a good old fashioned chilly dreary Winter’s night in Manhattan. My favorite kind

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