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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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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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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The end of summer means different things to different folks. One of the things it means to me is a new crop of books coming out by New Yorker artists. Over the past month or so the Spill has mentioned various early release covers and/or spoken of advanced copies received. I thought it would be fun this weekend before
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