Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, October 28 – November 1, 2024; Cover Artist Eric Drooker Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

  The Tilley Watch Online, October 28 – November 1, 2024 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features Daily Cartoon: Dan Misdea, Adam Douglas Thompson, David Ostow, Christopher Weyant, Emily Flake, Lonnie Millsap. Shouts and Murmurs: Ali Fitzgerald “America!: Election Mascots”; Liana Finck “Halloween Decorations Explained” ______________________________________________________________________ Cover Artist, Eric

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Friday Spill: Article Of Interest…Liana Finck; Product Watch…Gross & Levin Cocktail Glasses; Delivered…”At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker”

Article Of Interest: Liana Finck From Columbia Spectator, October 30, 2024, “How To Exist: 10 Topics with Liana Finck”  Ms. Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here.  __________________________________________________________________ Product Watch: Sam Gross & Arnie Levin Cocktail Glasses Here’re two glasses that showed up on Ebay — New Yorker cartoon “product” I’ve never seen before. Both

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Thurber Thursday: Frank Modell, Roger Angell, John Updike, In Unedited Interviews, Talk About Thurber

My New Yorker colleague, Roland High, alerted me to a site loaded with video interviews conducted for Adam Van Doren’s 2000 documentary, James Thurber: The Life and Hard Times. These are unedited video interviews of, among others, Frank Modell, John Updike, Lillian Ross, and Roger Angell. All the interviews are Thurber-centric. __________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December

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