Friday Spill: Fave Photos Of The Day; Anatomy Of A Daily Cartoon; Two Posts Of Interest From Attempted Bloggery; Sam Marlow Guests On The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Fave Photos Of The Day From last evening’s Uptown Arts Stroll in Washington Heights, New Yorker cover artist, Andrea Arroyo stands in front of one of her pieces from her “Goddesses at the Palace” exhibit in the foyer of The United Palace. Below: attendees, New Yorker cartoonists Liza Donnelly, and Felipe Galindo (Ms. Arroyo’s husband).  _______________________________________________________________________________ Anatomy Of A Daily

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Guilty Pleasures: 75 New Yorker Cartoons Reprinted; Today’s Daily New Yorker Cartoonist: Tim Hamilton; Reminder: Roz Chast At The Strand Tonight; New York Times Op-Ed On The American Bystander; Gahan Wilson GoFundMe Campaign Over A Third Of The Way To Goal

Somehow this December 2018 release escaped notice here. What’s of particular interest are the number of reprinted New Yorker cartoons it contains: 75 of them. I can’t remember a non–New Yorker book that has ever come close to reprinting this many (if anyone does, please let me know). PR from the publisher, The Oxford University Press: In Guilty Pleasures, legal

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The Tilley Watch Online, February 25 – March 1, 2019: Chast At The Strand & On The Radio

This week’s Daily cartoonists: Ivan Ehlers, Barry Blitt, Christopher Weyant, Brendan Loper, and Kim Warp.  Save for Ms. Warp’s Oscar drawing, the rest all Donald J. Trump-related. Julia Wertz was the sole New Yorker cartoonist Daily Shouts contributor. You can see all of the above, and more here. ________________________________ Chast At The Strand Roz Chast at the Strand this coming

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A New Yorker State Of Mind: James Thurber’s Art Debuts In The New Yorker; Two New Yorker Cartoonists Cover Cold Comfort Farm; Karl Stevens at The Gardner Museum; Today’s New Yorker Daily Cartoonist: Barry Blitt

The must-read blog, A New Yorker State of Mind on the debut of Thurber art in The New Yorker.  Read here. … And as the subject is Thurber New Yorker firsts, here are others: Thurber’s New Yorker debut, in the issue of February 26, 1927: two pieces of verse.  The first,  Villanelle Of Horatio Street, Manhattan (19 lines, signed James

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