Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A Chon Day Original Drawing It’s not unusual for a Chon Day original cartoon to show up online; this particular one captured my attention because of one word in the caption (if you’re on this site, you’ll immediately figure out which word it is). Of Mr. Day’s 1000+ drawings contributed to The New Yorker,
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Fall Event of Interest: Tom Toro With Roz Chast At Joe’s Pub As part of the pr parade for his upcoming cartoon collection, And To Think We Started As A Book Club…, Tom Toro (a New Yorker contributor since 2010) will be joined onstage in November at Joe’s Pub (a ticketed event) by fellow cartoonist Roz Chast (a contributor since
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Liza Donnelly On Mary Petty Long-time New Yorker contributor, Liza Donnelly, continues her series on the magazine’s women cartoonists with “The Cartoons of Mary Petty” … Mary Petty’s A-Z entry: Mary Petty Born, Hampton, New Jersey, April 29,1899. Died, Paramus, New Jersey, March, 1976. New Yorker work: October 22,1927 – March 19, 1966. Collection: This Petty Pace ( Knopf, 1945)
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Note: Hoping yesterday’s tech issue has been fixed! Some material (the Comic-Con book news) from the semi-posted-Saturday Spill is repeated here. The San Diego 2025 Comic-Con Souvenir Book…And an Editing Glitch Addressed The 2025 Comic-Con online-only Souvenir Book can be read here. I was honored to be asked to write a New Yorker cartoon-centric piece (“A Century of Ink
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