Friday Spill: Chast & Finck At The New Yorker’s 2025 Festival; Book News…Perlman, Campbell, Hwang, Kuper; Gag Recap, 1954-2025

Chast & Finck At The New Yorker Festival If you’re looking for something New Yorker cartoonist/cartoon-related at the upcoming New Yorker Festival, this is it: Roz Chast and Liana Finck will be in conversation, joined by the magazine’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen. From the magazine’s schedule: ____________________________________________________________________ Perlman’s Latest Hi, It’s Me Again, Asher Perlman‘s follow-up to Well,This Is Me

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Friday Spill: Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson; Harry Bliss Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Attempted Bloggery On A W.B. Park Ballpark Drawing; Early Info On The 2025 New Yorker Fest

Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her

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