Weekend Spill: Arantza Pena Popo’s “The Mole” Nominated For An Ignatz Award; Fave Photo Of The Weekend…Stevens And Karasik; Liza Donnelly On Sarah Akinterinwa; Tilley Watch Online, August 11-15, 2025

Arantza Pena Popo Nominated For An Ignatz Award   Arantza Pena Popo, who began contributing to The New yorker in 2020 has been nominated for an Ignatz Award in the category of Outstanding Minicomic, forThe Mole, her self-published comic. On Instagram, Ms. Popo said The Mole is “about a depraved lesbian who falls in love with women’s mole and has

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Sunday Spill: Video Of Interest…Eldon Dedini; Interview Of Interest…Paul Karasik; Exhibit Review of Interest…Peter Kuper

Video Of Interest: Eldon Dedini Here’s a a half hour video of Ken Kearney interviewing Eldon Dedini back in 2005 (Mr. Dedini died in 2006): “The New Yorker and Playboy Cartoonist” An example of Mr. Dedini’s work from The New Yorker, January 14, 1991. Eldon Dedini’s A-Z Entry: Eldon Dedini ( Photo source: Esquire Cartoon Album, 1957) Born 1921, King City,

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Friday Spill: A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Drawings!; Interview Of Interest…Peter Kuper; Jose Arroyo Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Paul Karasik On Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Podcast; Fun Event: Liana Finck! Asher Perlman! David Ostow! Avi Steinberg!

  A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Cartoons! Joe Dator, one of the great modern New Yorker cartoonists, is offering a number of his original drawings published in the magazine. Below are just two of over a dozen available. See all the work here! This drawing appeared in The New Yorker November 28, 2016.            

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