New Yorker Cartoonists Galore at the At Wit’s End Launch Party A terrif turn-out last night (despite the cold hard rain) in NYC at the Rizzoli bookstore for the launch of At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker. A goodly number of New Yorker artists were on hand to help send the book out into the world. Group photo
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A Bevy Of Paperbacks Every so often it’s good to take stock, or, in this case, to lay the stock out on the floor and take a look at it. Below, in no particular order, are most, but not all, of the Thurber paperbacks in the Spill library (I just realized I left out two paperback editions of The Last
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Yinfan Huang Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Yinfan Huang, who began contributing to The New Yorker in March of 2021, guests on this week’s Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (it’s episode #177 for those keeping track). Listen here. Visit Yinfan Huang’s website here. Photo above, clockwise from top left: co-hosts Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Vin Coca;
Read moreFrom The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons event at Rizzoli last night, with (l-r) New Yorker cartoonists Robert Leighton, Marisa Acocella, Bob Eckstein, and Barbara Smaller. (Photo courtesy of Marcie Jacobs-Cole). Robert Leighton began contributing to The New Yorker in 2002; Ms. Acocella in 1998; Mr. Eckstein in 2007; Ms. Smaller in 1996. And don’t forget there’s another gathering
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