Friday Spill: Chris Weyant On The Caption Contest Podcast; A Mick Stevens Original Auctioned For A Song; Author Talk Of Interest: Liza Donnelly; Paul Karasik On Philip K. Dick; A New Yorker State Of Mind On The New Yorker’s 8th Anniversary Issue; More “Maus”

Chris Weyant On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The 50th New Yorker Caption Contest Podcast has been posted with Chris Weyant as the guest. Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Vin Coca are the hosts. Hear it here.  Chris Weyant began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Visit his website here.  –Clockwise from top left: Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, Chris

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Spiegelman on Maus & Post-Maus; Cartoonists & Cookbooks

From Kentwired.com, March 7, 2018, “Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Art Spiegelman Discusses Politics and Identity” — Maus and more from the celebrated cartoonist who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. _______________________________________________________________ Cartoonists & Cookbooks The Cartoonist Cookbook popped up on an online search yesterday.  Published in 1966 by Hobbs, Dorman & Co., it includes 45 favorite recipes by

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Three Summer Finds

On this Summertime slow cartoon news day I thought I’d post photos of  treasures found on a recent expedition northeast of my home.   Jeremy, a main character from The Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine, was in a church basement thrift shop.  When I held Jeremy up into the air and asked the woman manning the register, “How much?” she replied,

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