Book of Interest: That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick

            Recently published: Ellin Stein’s That’s Not Funny, It’s Sick  / the National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream (W.W. Norton & Co.). From the publisher’s notes:   Journalist Ellin Stein, an observer of the scene since the early 1970s, draws on a wealth of revealing, firsthand interviews with the architects and impresarios

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Tom Cheney: Lessons from Charles Rodrigues

                          This is the second installment in an Ink Spill series of cartoonists talking about the important cartoon connections in their lives.  Felipe Galindo wrote about Steinberg last week.  This week, Tom Cheney, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978 (one of his most famous contributions

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