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

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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Friday Spill: Bonus Cartoon Pad Podcast; Stand-Up (With Cartoons) Of Interest; Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons; Allenby Completes Her Walk Along The Continental Divide Trail; Interview Of Interest: Ali Solomon

Bonus Cartoon Pad Podcast The Pad‘s co-hosts, New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw swipe at each other like kittens in this special, shorter bonus edition of the Pad.  Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999.  The duo announced that their next guest will be Mick Stevens*, who began contributing to The

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Weekend Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Library…William Steig’s 1st Collection; The Latest Cartoon Pad Guest: Marisa Acocella; New ToonStack Posted

Latest Addition To The Spill’s Library…William Steig’s 1st Collection It’s taken awhile to get hold of a dust jacketed copy of William Steig’s very first cartoon collection, Man About Town but finally one has arrived here at Spill headquarters. Published in 1932 by Ray Long & Richard R. Smith; hard cover, unpaginated, on good paper stock that has held the

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