Friday Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Archive…A Chon Day Original Drawing; Liza Donnelly On Bishakh Som; Paul Noth Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest; New Book…Kaamran Hafeez; Finck Interviews Chast

Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A Chon Day Original Drawing It’s not unusual for a Chon Day original cartoon to show up online; this particular one captured my attention because of one word in the caption (if you’re on this site, you’ll immediately figure out which word it is). Of Mr. Day’s 1000+ drawings contributed to The New Yorker,

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Friday Spill: Group Exhibit In Connecticut Includes Work By New Yorker Cover Artist, Arthur Getz; Liza Donnelly On Barbara Shermund; Two Chatfield Chats…Tom Toro, Liana Finck

Group Exhibit In Connecticut Includes Work By Arthur Getz   The Rose Algrant Show in West Cornwall Connecticut will include work by the late exceptionally great New Yorker artist Arthur Getz.  Mr. Getz holds the title of most prolific cover artist in the magazine’s history (213 in his 50 years of contributing). The Spill contacted Mr. Getz’s daughter for information

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Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week; Ken Levine Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest; Interview Of Interest…Peter Kuper; Latest Addition To The Spill Library…William Steig’s “Strutters & Fretters”

Fave Photo Of The Week Emily Nussbaum (a New Yorker writer, shown below top row, center)) posted this photo on social media yesterday. The photo was taken in Ellenville, New York for the occasion of a panel “Drawing Funny: Jewish Humor and the Art of the New Yorker Cartoon” at the Borscht Belt Fest 2025. Ms. Nussbaum moderated. In the

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Friday Spill: A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Drawings!; Interview Of Interest…Peter Kuper; Jose Arroyo Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Paul Karasik On Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Podcast; Fun Event: Liana Finck! Asher Perlman! David Ostow! Avi Steinberg!

  A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Cartoons! Joe Dator, one of the great modern New Yorker cartoonists, is offering a number of his original drawings published in the magazine. Below are just two of over a dozen available. See all the work here! This drawing appeared in The New Yorker November 28, 2016.            

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