Saturday Spill: Video Chat Of Interest: Tom Toro & Christopher Weyant; 84 Year Old Photo & News Article Surfaces Of Roberta MacDonald

Video Chat Of Interest: Tom Toro & Christopher Weyant A short but fun conversation between these two cartoonists — some of the discussion centers about their recent childrens books. Watch it here.  *** From the Dept. of Shameless Plugs: Both Mr. Toro and Mr. Weyant are profiled in At Wit’s End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker   ________________________________________________________ 84 Year

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Wednesday Spill: “From Lines To Laughs: Women+ On Men” Exhibit Opens At The Society Of Illustrators; Personal History…”My Greatest Drawing Ever”

“From Lines To Laughs: Women+ On Men” Exhibit Opens At the Society Of Illustrators Opening today! An exhibit of work at The Society of Illustrators by the New Yorker artists listed below. Sarah Akinterinwa, Lila Ash, Ellie Black, Hilary Campbell, Roz Chast, Liza Donnelly, Liana Finck, Emily Flake, Helen Hokinson, Amy Hwang, Amy Kurzweil, Maggie Larson, Sara Lautman, Roberta Macdonald,

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Meet The Artist (1943): Roberta Macdonald; Today’s Daily Cartoonist & Today’s Daily Shouts Cartoonist; Roz Chast & Company

Meet The Artist (1943): Roberta Macdonald Another in a series of self portraits of New Yorker artists included in the Meet The Artist catalog published by the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in 1943. Here’s Ms. Macdonald’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z: Roberta Macdonald (Photo courtesy of Ms. MacDonald’s daughter). Born, San Francisco, 1917. Died, Santa Rosa, California, 1999. New

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