As posted here yesterday, Emily Flake has been awarded this year’s Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art. The Spill congratulates Emily on the award! Liza Donnelly (who, in partnership with Thurber House and this cartoonist, initiated the award) wrote on her Substack two years ago when the prize was first awarded: “The prize goes to someone who, like
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Thurber House announced this morning that Emily Flake has been awarded the 2026 Thurber Prize For American Humor In Cartoon Art . From Thurber House:”Awarded annually, the Thurber Prize for American Humor is one of the highest recognitions of the art of humor writing and cartooning in the United States.” The prize was first awarded in 2024 to Roz Chast;
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First & Last New Yorker Drawing… Frank Modell A series of quick looks at an artist’s very first New Yorker cartoon and their last Frank Modell was one of The New Yorker‘s cartoonist anchors during the James Geraghty/Lee Lorenz eras. In his fifty-one years at the magazine he was one of the few artists who contributed over a 1000 drawings
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The Cartoonists and Cartoons Sixteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (Liana Finck has a Sketchpad; Barry Blitt has the cover). One duo, that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). No newbies. Always good to see a drawing by the late great Sam Gross.* This week’s cartoons in a slideshow This week’s Cartoon Caption Contest (Meredith Southard provides
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