Friday Spill: Today’s Daily Cartoon: The Ever Given In The Bedroom; Latest Blitt Kvetchbook; Daily Shouts

Today’s Daily is a timely duo effort from Ellis Rosen & Navied Mahdavian. Mr. Rosen began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016; Mr. Mahdavian in 2018. __________________________________________________ Latest Blitt Kvetchbook From Barry Blitt, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1994: “Making Press Conferences Interesting Again”   ___________________________________________________ Daily Shouts (March 25th, 2021) From David Ostow, who began

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The Weekend Spill: ToonStack #2; The Tilley Watch Online, March 15-19, 2021; Illustrated Odds & Ends

            ToonStack #2 The second ToonStack Newsletter has been posted. The contributors include Navied Dahvanian, Hillary Campbell, Kendra Allenby, Johnny DiNapoli, Ellis Rosen, J.A.K., Amy Kurzweil, Jason Chatfield, Avi Steinberg, and Sofia Warren. See all the work here. _______________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of March 15-19, 2021 An end of week listing of

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Friday Spill: ToonStack, A Cartoon Newsletter; Latest Addition To The Spill’s Cartoon Library: Sam Gross’s First Cartoon Collection; The Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

ToonStack, A Cartoon Newsletter ToonStack, a weekly newsletter with numerous cartoonist contributors, all of them, save one, New Yorker cartoonists, has posted its first installment. Each week there’ll be a new “gaggle of [cartoons] on a different theme.”This first post’s theme: Murder. Contributing are Kendra Allenby, Hilary Campbell, Ellis Rosen, Amy Kurzweil, Sofia Warren, Johnny DiNapoli, J.A.K., Navied Mahdavian, and

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Thurber Thursday: Faces & Facts; Interview Of Interest: Navied Mahdavian; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

Faces & Facts Here’s a great little book I picked up quite a ways back during my research for the Peter Arno biography. Faces & Facts By And About 26 Contemporary Artists was privately printed in 1937 (just 526 copies) with an introduction by James Montgomery Flagg and “biographies” by Willis Birchman. Each biography is given a page, and opposite

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