Weekend Spill: New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen At The Reuben Awards; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of August 21-25, 2023; Books…An Interview With Amy Kurzweil; Navied Mahdavian’s Book Tour

                    New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen At The Reuben Awards  Emma Allen, front and center, holding a box of cartoon submissions, appears on this promotional piece by Ed Steckley for the National Cartoonists Society 77th Reuben Awards. Ms. Allen will be part of a panel discussion, moderated by New Yorker

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Friday Spill: New Book…Julia Wertz’s Museum Of Mistakes; More Spills…

Just out from Julia Wertz, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2015, Museum Of Mistakes (Uncivilized Books). From the publisher:   “Museum of Mistakes collects anything and everything that is [Ms. Wertz’s out of print diary comic book] The Fart Party. Plus: numerous pages of Julia’s early comic work, unpublished and previously uncollected comics, short stories, illustrations, process pages,

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Tuesday Spill: In Conversation…Julia Wertz; Podcast Of Interest…Barry Blitt; New Book On The Horizon…Illustrated By Tom Toro

In Conversation: Julia Wertz      From The Mary Sue, June 12, 2023, “Of Comics, Children, And Community: In Conversation With Julia Wertz” Julia Wertz began contributing to The New Yorker in 2015. Her latest book is Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story (Running Press).  Visit her website here.  ________________________________________________________________ Podcast Of Interest: Barry Blitt From Print Is Dead

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Weekend Spill: Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of May 8-12, 2023; More Spills…Ed Koren’s Film Debut; Documentary Film: “Saul Steinberg’s Line”; Ivan Ehlers’ Graphic Account Of The Writers’ Strike Picket Line; A ToonStack Tribute To Sam Gross; Wertz Reviewed; Finck’s TED; Chast & Flake Talk; Caption Contest Podcast Begins New Feature; Happy 90th, Sid Harris!

Tilley Watch Online…The Week Of May 8-12, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Maggie Larson, Ellis Rosen, Brooke Bourgeois, Adam Douglas Thompson, David Sipress, Brendan Loper. Daily Shouts: Suerynn Lee, (Ginny Hogan) with J.A.K. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Weinstein, Cosby, And Trump Play Around” ___________________________________________________________-  

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