Wednesday Spill: Very Funny Ladies Panel At MoCCA Arts Fest This Saturday With Roz Chast, Maggie Larson, Liza Donnelly, Barbara Smaller, and Bishakh Som; 70 Years Ago In The New Yorker

  Here’s a link to the MoCCA Arts Fest 2022 website for even more info. Roz Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978, Liza Donnelly in 1979, Maggie Larson in 2017, Barbara Smaller in 1996, and Bishakh Som in 2018.  ____________________________________________________                          70 Years Ago In The New

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Tuesday Spill: Latest Addition To the Spill Library: The American Cartoon Album

Bob Abel, co-editor of The Funnies: An American Idiom, whose creds also include working for Humorama (in Mr. Abel’s words)”a pre-pubescent conglomerate of eight humor magazines” and Ad Lib (again, in Mr. Abel’s words) a publication “which featured cartoonists no one else was publishing very much”  came out with this 9″x12″ hard cover collection of cartoons from many of the

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Friday Spill: Ken Levine Interviews David Sipress; Article Of Interest: Edward Koren; Liana Finck In Conversation At The Strand: A Cartoonist Duo On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Ken Levine Interviews David Sipress From Ken Levine’s “Hollywood And Levine” pod, March 24, 2022:   Newbie New Yorker cartoonist Ken Levine (his first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the issue of January 4, 2022) interviews David Sipress about his new book, What’s So Funny?  Listen here.  This is Part 1 of a two part interview. Part 2 will be

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