Friday Spill: A Roundup

  …Marc Philippe Eskenazi, who once upon a time worked in The New Yorker’s Cartoon Department, is interviewed by the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast folks. Listen here. … Here’s a tie-in piece for Roz Chast’s latest book, I Must Be Dreaming: The New York Times visits Ms.Chast At Home.  …Here’s a piece about AddamsFest 2023. …and this, on November 2nd,

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Wednesday’s Spill: Steinberg’s Masks; Daily Cartoonists & Cartoons; Daily Shouts Cartoonists

Steinberg’s Masks Attempted Bloggery shows us several auctioned Inge Morath photos of Steinberg masked. Want to see more, there’s always Saul Steinberg Masquerade, published by Viking Studio in 2000. Here’s Steinberg’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:   Saul Steinberg Born, June 15, 1914, Ramnic-Sarat, Rumania. Died in 1999. New Yorker work: 1941 – (The New Yorker publishes his work posthumously).

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Weekend Spill: “I Played Ping-Pong” With Thurber…The New Yorker’s Roger Angell Interview; John Cuneo Sketches A Cover On A Napkin; The Tilley Watch Online: February 10-14, 2020

Interview Of Interest: Roger Angell From The New Yorker, this terrif interview of Roger Angell by Willing Davidson, a senior editor at the magazine: “Baseball, Fiction, And Life: Roger Angell’s Era-spanning Career At The New Yorker” Left: Mr. Angell, wearing the hat, with another New Yorker era-spanner, Edward Koren ______________________________________________________________ John Cuneo Sketches A Cover On A Napkin When I

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