ToonStack, A Cartoon Newsletter ToonStack, a weekly newsletter with numerous cartoonist contributors, all of them, save one, New Yorker cartoonists, has posted its first installment. Each week there’ll be a new “gaggle of [cartoons] on a different theme.”This first post’s theme: Murder. Contributing are Kendra Allenby, Hilary Campbell, Ellis Rosen, Amy Kurzweil, Sofia Warren, Johnny DiNapoli, J.A.K., Navied Mahdavian, and
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The Weekend Spill Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly Works On Her “Very Funny Ladies” Cover With the updated and expanded manuscript turned in for the new edition of Very Funny Ladies, Liza Donnelly has turned to the book’s new cover. The photo below taken today in her studio (a room that long long ago was the site of boxing
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The Spill’s Traditional Superbowl Sunday Cartoon With the big day upon us, it’s time to dust off the above drawing of mine that appeared in The New Yorker, October 16, 2006. I’m admittedly more of a baseball fan than a football fan; I post this drawing because it reminds me somehow of my late father-in-law who loved the game. ________________________________________________________________________
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Personal History: Pre-New Yorker Reading Material Although it might seem like it’s all about The New Yorker here at Spill headquarters, there’s no denying that before The New Yorker became what it’s become (here) there were other reading materials. Like many kids, it was the comics, mostly in the form of comic books, that ate up the hours. I managed
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