Wednesday Spill: Latest Guest On The Cartoon Pad…Lars Kenseth ; Cartoon Caption Contest Celebrates Its 100th Episode; A “Comic Chat” With Harry Bliss

Latest Guest On The Cartoon Pad…Lars Kenseth New Yorker cartoonists and Cartoon Pad co-hosts, Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw speak with funny guy Lars Kenseth in this latest episode. Lars talks about sports, cartoonists, and his creepy clown drawing (published November 14, 2016) — the first ever New Yorker cartoon referencing the magazine.  Listen here.   Lars Kenseth began contributing to

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Thurber Thursday: The First Published Thurber Drawing; Latest Guest On The Caption Contest Podcast…Marisa Acocella

The Very First Published Thurber Drawing  Edwin T. Bowden’s James Thurber: A Bibliography, the must-have book for Thurbermaniacs tells us that Thurber’s very first published drawing in a periodical, shown above*, was in Ohio State University’s Sun-Dial, November, 1917. It was followed by seven more drawings in the same paper, the last appearing March 7, 1918. The timeline for Thurber’s

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David Sipress: The Ink Spill Interview

  Above: David Sipress, on the left, with Sam Gross, who Mr. Sipress calls “the funniest cartoonist that’s ever been.”    –Photo: Ken Krimstein                       We don’t see many memoirs from New Yorker cartoonists. Peter Arno started one, but it never went further than lists of names and snippets of memories

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The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg

                Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and Edward Koren. NYC, Spring, 2017.                                   The Ink Spill Interview: Mort Gerberg This week marks the 56th anniversary of the publication of the first cartoon Mort Gerberg sold to The New Yorker. The cartoon was

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