Wednesday Spill: Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon; Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; McCall’s New York

  Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Tom Toro on working outside of the home. Mr. Toro began contributing to The New Yorker in 2010. Visit his website here.  Zoe Si was yesterday’s Daily Cartoonist. Ms. Si began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2020. Visit her website here. Also: Zoe Si is today’s Daily Shouts cartoonist. _______________________________________________________________________ McCall’s New York

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Fave New Yorker Holiday Party Pix

It happened last night: The New Yorker’s first Holiday Party way downtown near its new offices in The World Trade Center.  The venue was dark (see photos), small, and filled with throbbing music. The joint was packed (yes, like sardines) with happy folk. Saw Calvin Trillin  anchored near the entrance, while the magazine’s editor, David Remnick shouldered through the crowd,

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Washington Post’s Q&A with Liza Donnelly

“Tonight’s Thurber Prize: New Yorker Cartoonist Liza Donnelly Strikes Apt Chords with “Women on Men” (September 30, 2014)–The Washington Post’s Michael Cavna talks to Liza Donnelly. Further reading: From Media Bistro’s Galley Cat: “Debut Novelist John Kenney Wins Thurber Prize for American Humor”    

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Liza Donnelly is a Thurber Prize Finalist

Women on Men (Narrative Library), the most recent book by Liza Donnelly, the long time New Yorker cartoonist, has been selected as one of three finalists for The Thurber Prize.  The other nominees are David Letterman & Bruce McCall for This Land Was Made For You and Me (But Mostly Me) and John Kenney for Truth in Advertising. The winner

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