Friday Spill: Chast & Finck At The New Yorker’s 2025 Festival; Book News…Perlman, Campbell, Hwang, Kuper; Gag Recap, 1954-2025

Chast & Finck At The New Yorker Festival If you’re looking for something New Yorker cartoonist/cartoon-related at the upcoming New Yorker Festival, this is it: Roz Chast and Liana Finck will be in conversation, joined by the magazine’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen. From the magazine’s schedule: ____________________________________________________________________ Perlman’s Latest Hi, It’s Me Again, Asher Perlman‘s follow-up to Well,This Is Me

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Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week: Millsap, Kenseth, Arroyo, Ehlers, Levine, Diffee; Latest Addition To The Spill Library…Kuper’s “Wish We Weren’t Here”; At SPX 2025…Campbell, Karasik, Ukazu, Kuper; Harry Bliss In Conversation

Fave Photo Of The Week Ken Levine posted the below on social media the other day. A quintuple of cartoonists showed up to see Mr. Levine’s play, Back To The Drawing Board. — L-r: Lonnie Millsap, Lars Kenseth, Jose Arroyo, Ivan Ehlers, Mr. Levine, and Matt Diffee.  _____________________________________________________________________ Latest Addition To The Spill Library: Peter Kuper’s Wish We Weren’t Here

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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: Fave Photo Of The Week; Ken Levine Is The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Guest; Interview Of Interest…Peter Kuper; Latest Addition To The Spill Library…William Steig’s “Strutters & Fretters”

Fave Photo Of The Week Emily Nussbaum (a New Yorker writer, shown below top row, center)) posted this photo on social media yesterday. The photo was taken in Ellenville, New York for the occasion of a panel “Drawing Funny: Jewish Humor and the Art of the New Yorker Cartoon” at the Borscht Belt Fest 2025. Ms. Nussbaum moderated. In the

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