Tuesday Spill: Reminder! Liza Donnelly Guests On Jason Chatfield’s “Draw Me Anything!” Today; Rich Sparks To Guest On The Cartoon Pad Pod; Latest Addition To The Spill Archive

Reminder! Liza Donnelly Guests On Jason Chatfield’s Draw Me Anything! Live Today At Noon (est). Ms. Donnelly is a long-time New Yorker contributor. She recently directed, with Kathleen Hughes, the short documentary film Women Laughing. Jason Chatfield began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017. ________________________________________________________________________________ Rich Sparks To Guest On The Cartoon Pad Pod Rich Sparks, who began contributing

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Friday Spill: Rich Sparks Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Lots Of Olddens On Attempted Bloggery; “A New Yorker State Of Mind” Looks at The New Yorker’s Issue Of May 5, 1934

Rich Sparks Guests On The Caption Contest Podcast –Screen grab, clockwise from top left: Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Vin Coca, and Rich Sparks.  Rich Sparks is this week’s guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. In this episode the “Ten A Week” faux commandment comes up yet again!  Listen to the Rich Sparks episode here.  Mr. Sparks began

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Tuesday Spill: Article Of Interest: Rich Sparks; The Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon: Video Of Interest With The New Yorker’s Cartoon Editor

Article Of Interest: Rich Sparks From The Chicago Tribune, December 1, 2020, “Rich Sparks Does Drawings That Make People Laugh, And Sometimes Cringe. How’d You like A Hand Sandwich?” — this piece on Mr. Sparks who began contributing to The New Yorker in April of 2016. Visit his website here. His latest book is Love And Other Weird Things __________________________________________________________________

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The Latest American Bystander; Jason Chatfield’s Covid-19 Diary; Daily Cartoon & Daily Shouts Cartoonists (Yesterday’s & Today’s)…And Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook

The latest American Bystander (March 2020) has landed on my desk —  it’s a treat!  Here are The New Yorker cartoonists whose contributions you’ll find in the issue (and in the case of John Cuneo, on the issue’s cover): George Booth (besides a full-page Booth drawing there’s a lovely photo of Mr. Booth on the very last page), Roz Chast

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