Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week (1): Liza Donnelly In A Sea Of Original New Yorker Art; Happy Birthday, Edward Frascino!; Radio Interview Of Interest: Bruce Eric Kaplan; Fave Photo Of The Week (2): Chatfield, Campbell, And Warren; And Speaking Of Photographs And Cartoonists And Events: Next Thursday Is Launch Day For “At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker”

Fave Photo Of The Week 1 Here’s Liza Donnelly in a sea of New Yorker original art for The New Yorker centennial exhibit she’s curating for The Society of Illustrators (the exhibit will open in 2025…more details to come when available). _______________________________________________________________________ Happy Birthday, Edward Frascino!   The Spill wishes Mr. Frascino, at 94, The New Yorker‘s eldest active contributing

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Tuesday Spill: Reminder: Tonight Live at 7: Zoom Launch Of Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists With Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Kim Warp, And Kendra Allenby

  Join Liza Donnelly, Roz Chast, Kim Warp, and Kendra Allenby in a live virtual launch for Ms. Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies. Oblong Books in Rhinebeck & Millerton NY hosts this free panel discussion. Register here! In case you missed it, here’s Ms. Donnelly speaking with Joe Donahue yesterday on Public Radio Station WAMC’s Roundtable.  And here’s a piece “These

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Radio Interview of Interest: Peter Steiner

Here’s Peter Steiner on WAMC’s Roundtable with Joe Donahue (broadcast August 28, 2018).   Mr. Steiner began contributing to the New Yorker in 1979. From his entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Mr. Steiner is responsible for one of the most famous (and most republished) New Yorker cartoons in modern times, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” (published July 5,

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When Great Cartoonists Think Alike; Audio: WAMC’s Arno interview

Attempted Bloggery takes a closer look at two similar but different cartoons by two very different cartoonists, Peter Arno and Otto Soglow. Read it here.   __________________________________________________________________________________________ And speaking of Peter Arno, here’s an audio link to an Arno interview conducted this morning by Joe Donahue on WAMC, a Northeast  Public Radio station.

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