Wednesday Spill: Very Funny Ladies Panel At MoCCA Arts Fest This Saturday With Roz Chast, Maggie Larson, Liza Donnelly, Barbara Smaller, and Bishakh Som; 70 Years Ago In The New Yorker

  Here’s a link to the MoCCA Arts Fest 2022 website for even more info. Roz Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978, Liza Donnelly in 1979, Maggie Larson in 2017, Barbara Smaller in 1996, and Bishakh Som in 2018.  ____________________________________________________                          70 Years Ago In The New

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Wednesday Spill: Partnering; School Days; Tom Toro Revisits The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

An upcoming issue of The Comics Journal featuring an interview with Pia Guerra coupled with her recent appearance on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (along with her writing partner, Ian Boothby) has caused me to think a little this morning about the relatively modern jump in “dedicated” and public partnerships in The New Yorker‘s cartoonist stable. In the podcast, Ms.

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Friday Spill: Attempted Bloggery Looks At A 1938 Issue Of “Stage”; New Yorker State Of Mind Deep Dives Into The December 24, 1938 Issue; More Spills: Blitt’s Kvetchbook, Yesterday’s Daily Cartoon

    Attempted Bloggery Looks At A 1938 Issue Of Stage   From Attempted Bloggery, January 7, 2022, “The New Yorker Advertises In Stage, April 1938“— a fun look at some of the art, including the new-to-my-eyes George Price illustration shown here.       A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At  The Dec 24, 1932 New Yorker This

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The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg

                Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017.                                   The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was

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