Tuesday Spill: Chast A National Endowment For The Arts Medalist; Pub Day for Bruce Eric Kaplan’s “They Went Another Way: a Hollywood Memoir”; Fave Photo Of The Week…An Algonquin Roundtable Of Cartoonists

  Chast A National Humanities Medalist  The Spill congratulates Roz Chast on her award! She began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 1978. More information about the National Endowment for the Humanities Awards and a list of the 2022 and 2023 medalists here.  Here’s the photo & text Ms. Chast posted on social media this morning:   _____________________________________________________________________

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Tuesday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin Hotel: Pub Day for Ed Steed’s “Forces Of Nature”; EW Ranks “Every Addams Family Adaptation”

Fave Photo Of The Week: 10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin For Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Doc Filming for Liza Donnelly’s documentary, Women Laughing has been underway for several weeks in New York City. Last Sunday ten New Yorker cartoonists gathered at the fabled Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan for a roundtable discussion. Here’s the group, standing on 44th Street, photographed by

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Weekend Spill: New Yorker Cartoon Slide Show…”Oh, The Humidity” With Hokinson, Weber, Cotham and Fifteen More; The Tilley Watch Online, August 12-16, 2024; Book On The Horizon…”Singular Sensations: A Cultural History Of One-Panel Comics In The United States”

                                     New Yorker Slide Show: “Oh, The Humidity!”    Eighteen cartoons about the sticky icky, includes work by, among others, Helen Hokinson, Robert Weber, Liza Donnelly (shown to the left), Teresa Burns Parkhurst, Frank Cotham, Ali Solomon, Maggie Larson, and David Sipress. See

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