Friday Spill: Two Podcasts Of Interest…Amy Kurzweil Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Pod; Thurber Scholar, Michael Rosen Guests On The Cartoon Pad Pod

Amy Kurzweil Guests On Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Amy Kurzweil joins co-hosts Beth Lawler and Vin Coca (with Nicole Chrolavicius subbing for Paul Nesja) in episode #111. Ms. Kurzweil began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016. Visit her website here.   _________________________________________________________________________ Thurber Scholar Michael Rosen Guests On Cartoon Pad Pod Friend of the Spill, Thurber Scholar, Michael Rosen, guests

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Friday Spill: Addams Biographer Linda Davis Guests On Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Fab biographer, Linda Davis (Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, and Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White) is the most recent guest on the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Photo above, from top left, going clockwise: Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Vin Coca, and Ms. Davis.  Listen here.  Here’s the must-have 1991 Charles Addams anthology mentioned by Ms. Davis on

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Weekend Spill: Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of May 8-12, 2023; More Spills…Ed Koren’s Film Debut; Documentary Film: “Saul Steinberg’s Line”; Ivan Ehlers’ Graphic Account Of The Writers’ Strike Picket Line; A ToonStack Tribute To Sam Gross; Wertz Reviewed; Finck’s TED; Chast & Flake Talk; Caption Contest Podcast Begins New Feature; Happy 90th, Sid Harris!

Tilley Watch Online…The Week Of May 8-12, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Maggie Larson, Ellis Rosen, Brooke Bourgeois, Adam Douglas Thompson, David Sipress, Brendan Loper. Daily Shouts: Suerynn Lee, (Ginny Hogan) with J.A.K. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Weinstein, Cosby, And Trump Play Around” ___________________________________________________________-  

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Friday Spill: New Yorker Cover Artist And Writer, Bruce McCall…1935 – 2023; From The Better Late Than Never Department: Enrique Riveron Added To The A-Z; Jason Chatfield Guests On Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Book Event Of Interest…Julia Wertz

  Bruce McCall…1935-2023 Bruce McCall, who contributed more than 80 covers to The New Yorker (and as many humor pieces) passed away today at age 87, according to The New York Times. Mr. McCall’s work was also closely associated with the National Lampoon. Mr. McCall’s and David Letterman’s This Land Was Made For You and Me (But Mostly Me) —

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