Tuesday Spill: Chast A National Endowment For The Arts Medalist; Pub Day for Bruce Eric Kaplan’s “They Went Another Way: a Hollywood Memoir”; Fave Photo Of The Week…An Algonquin Roundtable Of Cartoonists

  Chast A National Humanities Medalist  The Spill congratulates Roz Chast on her award! She began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 1978. More information about the National Endowment for the Humanities Awards and a list of the 2022 and 2023 medalists here.  Here’s the photo & text Ms. Chast posted on social media this morning:   _____________________________________________________________________

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Tuesday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin Hotel: Pub Day for Ed Steed’s “Forces Of Nature”; EW Ranks “Every Addams Family Adaptation”

Fave Photo Of The Week: 10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin For Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Doc Filming for Liza Donnelly’s documentary, Women Laughing has been underway for several weeks in New York City. Last Sunday ten New Yorker cartoonists gathered at the fabled Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan for a roundtable discussion. Here’s the group, standing on 44th Street, photographed by

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Wednesday Spill: Sofia Warren’s Cartoon Caption Contest Video; An Award For Roz Chast; More Spills…A Future Project, A Book Launch

Sofia Warren’s Cartoon Caption Contest Video   The New Yorker has posted a short video with cartoonist Sofia Warren, talking to us about one of her Cartoon Caption Contest drawings. From the post, this text: “In a very rare glance behind the velvet curtain, we’re revealing the original, intended caption for one of our weekly Cartoon Caption Contest drawings.” Sofia

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Wednesday Spill: Curious Video…”A Day In The Life Of A New Yorker Cartoon”; New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Events; At The Brooklyn Book Fair: Roz Chast & Liana Finck

 Video: “A Day In The Life Of A New Yorker Cartoon”  Here’s an animated curiosity that popped up on one of my daily searches. _______________________________________ Thematically related, but otherwise unrelated… Back in 2012 Joe Dator gave us his classic “How We Do It: A Week In The Life Of A New Yorker Cartoonist” _______________________________________________________________________ New Yorker Festival Cartoonist Events Two

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