Tuesday Spill: Late Word On Two Events With Ken Krimstein; Interview Of Interest…Sarah Akinterinwa; A Deep Dive Into The Jan. 28, 1933 New Yorker; The Cartoon Pad Pod Asks For Your “Burning Cartoon Questions”

Late Word On Two Events With Ken Krimstein My apologies for this late word, but here are two Zoom events with Ken Krimstein coming up today, one in just an hour. Mr. Krimstein, who began contributing his cartoons to The New Yorker in 2000, is the author of the highly praised When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies Of Six

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Thurber Thursday: From Michael Shaw, The Night The TV Talked Back; Live Show Of Interest: “Funny On Paper” With Chatfield, Campbell, Varnado, Flake

From Michael Shaw, The Night The TV Talked Back From Michael Shaw, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999, The Fall Of The House Of Thurber —  this piece from the Mizzou Magazine Winter 2022 in which Mr. Shaw, who has happily embraced a lifelong case of Thurberitis, recalls a restless night at The Thurber House in Columbus,

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Tuesday Spill: Latest Cartoon Pad Guest: Shannon Wheeler; Today’s Daily Cartoonist: Yasin Osman

Latest Cartoon Pad Guest: Shannon Wheeler Mr. Too Much Coffee Man himself joins hosts (and New Yorker colleagues) Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw in this latest episode of the Pad.  Hear it here.  Mr. Wheeler began contributing to The New Yorker in 2009; Mr. Shaw in 1999; Mr. Eckstein in 2007.  _____________________________________________________________   Today’s Daily Cartoonist … is Yasin Osman,

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Weekend Spill: Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Emily Flake & Ellis Rosen; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 29 – December 3, 2021

Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Ellis Rosen & Emily Flake New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw, interview their colleague Ellis Rosen in the latest episode of The Cartoon Pad. Listen here.  Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999, and Mr. Rosen in 2016. _____________________________________________________________ And over on the Cartoon Caption Contest

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