Weekend Spill: Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Emily Flake & Ellis Rosen; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of November 29 – December 3, 2021

Two Podcast Guests Of Interest: Ellis Rosen & Emily Flake New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw, interview their colleague Ellis Rosen in the latest episode of The Cartoon Pad. Listen here.  Mr. Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker in 2007; Mr. Shaw in 1999, and Mr. Rosen in 2016. _____________________________________________________________ And over on the Cartoon Caption Contest

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Monday Tilley Watch: The New Yorker Issue Of November 22, 2021; Happy 91st Birthday, Edward Frascino!

The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Nuts  The Cartoonists:  Eighteen cartoons, eighteen cartoonists (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist. There’s one duo in this issue that we know of: Sophie Lucido Johnson and Sammi Skolmoski). There’s also a newbie, Teresa Wong, who

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Thurber Thursday: The Last Thurber Piece?; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon

  According to Harper’s, “The Future, If Any, Of Comedy… or, where do we non-go from here” published in its December 1961 issue is “believed to be the last piece Mr. Thurber wrote.” As you see in the scan below, it first appeared in London, in The Times Literary Supplement.  It appeared on US newsstands via Harper’s the month Thurber

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