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Weekend Spill: New Yorker Festival’s “Some Very Funny Ladies” Panel; Latest ToonStack…”Creepy, Sneaky, Spooky”; The National Cartoonists Society Promo Video; Hilary Campbell At NY Comic Con; Liza Donnelly On Editorial Cartooning

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The New Yorker Festival’s Some Very Funny Ladies Panel  Yesterday’s Some Very Funny Ladies virtual panel was the cartoon event of the festival. Emma Allen, the magazine’s cartoon editor moderated a discussion with cartoonists Amy Hwang, Liana Finck, Roz Chast and Liza Donnelly (Ms. Donnelly’s forthcoming book, Very Funny Ladies was the impetus for the panel).  Let’s hope that the

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The Wednesday Spill: Donnelly’s “So You’re A Democrat And You Won…”; Herblock In The New Yorker? Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Dator); Swann’s January Illustration Auction With Works By John Held, Jr., Barbara Shermund, Charles Addams, Lee Lorenz, Frank Modell, Alajalov, and More; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; A Note About The Spill’s A-Z

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From Liza Donnelly, this evergreen, published in The New Yorker November 17, 2008 — _________________________________________________________________ Herblock In The New Yorker? Say It Ain’t So, Joe (Dator) Last night, The Spill received an email from the fab New Yorker cartoonist, Joe Dator that spirited this cartoonist away for awhile from watching political coverage. Here’s Mr. Dator’s email, almost in its entirety.

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The Herblock Award Goes to Ward Sutton; Podcast of Interest: Joe Dator on “The Shining”; Liza Donnelly’s Live-Drawings From The Oscars

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Ward Sutton Awarded the Herblock Prize Ward Sutton, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007, has been awarded the Herblock Prize.  According to a press release: The Herblock Prize is awarded annually by The Herb Block Foundation for “distinguished examples of editorial cartooning that exemplify the courageous independent standard set by Herblock.” For more on Herblock, link here.

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