Emily Flake*, Amy Hwang**, and Chris Weyant are the three finalists in the (gag***) “Gag Cartooning” division of the 2021 National Cartoonists Society Awards. In the running for the NCS’s “Cartoonist Of The Year” award are two New Yorker colleagues: Keith Knight, and Edward Sorel. And among the Advertising/Product Illustration award nominees is another New Yorker colleague, Ivan
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A good many books anchoring the Spill‘s library — books heavily favoring text over cartoons that is — are books by and about the White and Angell family. After hearing of Roger Angell’s passing yesterday, I spent some time looking over these books. I keep them on the shelf together — a never ending family reunion. You can’t really think
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Tis A Puzzlement! The Spill‘s good friend, the illustrator Tom Bloom has sent in a scan of a bookplate he found affixed to a copy of Robert Benchley’s Beside Himself. I’m posting it in hope a Spill reader will be able to shed some light on Mary E. Hemenway and her fascinating bookplate. You’ll notice Otto Soglow’s Little King
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A Live Event Reminder: This Sunday A Gathering Of 14 New Yorker Artists This Sunday, May 1st at 2pm. Info/tickets here. Each artist will read a 650 word self-penned essay. The artists will address the question: What’s So Funny? Liza Donnelly, who co-curated the event, will live-draw throughout the proceedings. More about Read650 here.
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