From The Sports Desk: Jason Chatfield On The New Yorker vs New York Magazine — Jason Chatfield will be covering New Yorker baseball news for the Spill, sending in dispatches all season from the field. Here’s his report on the June 7th 2022 game: The New Yorker softball team played their first match for the season last night, albeit in
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The New Yorker’s Roger Angell Has Died Here’s The New Yorker‘s editor, David Remnick on Mr. Angell, who died today at age 101. And here’s The New York Times obit, written by Dwight Garner. Here’s a link to Mr. Angell’s wonderful piece on New Yorker cartoons, “Congratulations! It’s A Baby” that appeared in the magazine December 15, 1997: (sorry,
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Mike Twohy Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mike Twohy, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1980, is this week’s guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Shown in the screen grab above, clockwise from the upper left: Mike Twohy, and the hosts, Beth Lawler, Vin Coca, and Paul Nesja. Listen
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More Bill Lee In a follow-up to Steven Heller’s blog post of a couple of days ago, D.D. Degg over on The Daily Cartoonist fills in more Bill Lee puzzle pieces, but still no answer to “Whatever Happened To…Bill Lee?” (My own interactions with Mr. Lee began and ended in the late 1970s after he, in his role as OMNI‘s
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