Friday Spill: New Yorker Cartoon Dept. News; Upcoming Chast Lecture At Amherst: “Can’t We Talk About Something More Jewish?”; Bookstore Find Of The Week: “The Years With Ross”

New Yorker Cartoon Department News We learned yesterday, in an email to cartoonist contributors, that Rachel Perlman has joined the New Yorker staff as Assistant Cartoon Editor. She joins Colin Stokes, who is the Associate Cartoon Editor, and Emma Allen, the Cartoon Editor. Ms. Perlman had previously worked free-lance for the magazine.  I believe that this is the first time,

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Wednesday Spill: More Bill Lee; Aimee Mann…Fledgling Cartoonist; NYTs Reviews Finck’s “Let There Be Light”; David Sipress Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

  More Bill Lee In a follow-up to Steven Heller’s blog post of a couple of days ago, D.D. Degg over on The Daily Cartoonist fills in more Bill Lee puzzle pieces, but still no answer to “Whatever Happened To…Bill Lee?” (My own interactions with Mr. Lee began and ended in the late 1970s after he, in his role as OMNI‘s

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