Wednesday Spill: Tom Toro Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest; Fave Photo Of The Day

Tom Toro Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest Tom Toro, who has shown up quite a bit on the Spill lately, turns up once again. This time he’s on a Spill fave site, the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Listen here!  Above, clockwise from top left…co-hosts VinCoca, Paul Nesja, Beth Lawler, and Nicole Chrolavicius, and Mr. Toro. Visit Tom

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Friday Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Archive…A Chon Day Original Drawing; Liza Donnelly On Bishakh Som; Paul Noth Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest; New Book…Kaamran Hafeez; Finck Interviews Chast

Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A Chon Day Original Drawing It’s not unusual for a Chon Day original cartoon to show up online; this particular one captured my attention because of one word in the caption (if you’re on this site, you’ll immediately figure out which word it is). Of Mr. Day’s 1000+ drawings contributed to The New Yorker,

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Friday Spill: Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson; Harry Bliss Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Attempted Bloggery On A W.B. Park Ballpark Drawing; Early Info On The 2025 New Yorker Fest

Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her

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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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