Akeem Roberts Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Mr. Roberts, whose first New Yorker cartoon appeared in July of 2019, joins co-hosts Paul Nesja, Vin Coca, and Beth Lawler. Listen here. (photo above, clockwise from top left: Lawler, Nesja, Coca, and Roberts). Akeem Roberts’s website. ________________________________________________________________________________ It’s MoCCA fest time again (April 1-2, 2023). All the
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The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At Some Of The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: sun light The Cartoonists and Cartoons: Twelve cartoons, thirteen cartoonists (Roz Chast has a “Sketchbook”). No newbies, no duos that we know of. The longest active cartoonist in this issue is Ms. Chast, who began
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Cassettes, Anyone? Back in the late 1970s, early 1980s, cassettes seemed to be giving vinyl records a run for their money — they were the next big thing. Altho I had been buying vinyl albums for decades, the idea of the cassette — especially buying blank tapes and making your own mix — was appealing. I had the beginnings of
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Chast’s Embroidery From Threads Magazine, “Cartoonist Artist Roz Chast Draws With Needle And Thread” Ms. Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in the summer of 1978. Visit her website here. ________________________________________________________________________ Library Odds & Ends Okay, so these aren’t really “odd” but they are literally at the end of one of the Spill’s library shelves.
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