Friday Spill: A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Drawings!; Interview Of Interest…Peter Kuper; Jose Arroyo Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Paul Karasik On Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Podcast; Fun Event: Liana Finck! Asher Perlman! David Ostow! Avi Steinberg!

  A Bevy Of Joe Dator Original Cartoons! Joe Dator, one of the great modern New Yorker cartoonists, is offering a number of his original drawings published in the magazine. Below are just two of over a dozen available. See all the work here! This drawing appeared in The New Yorker November 28, 2016.            

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Friday Spill: Article Of Interest…Bruce Eric Kaplan; 1980s Coffee Ad Featuring Robert Weber Animation…Maybe; Ken Krimstein Talks To Gil Roth; Liana Finck Signs; Bob Eckstein’s Top 16 Cartoons

Article Of Interest…Bruce Eric Kaplan From The Los Angeles Daily News, December 12, 2024, “Cartoonist and TV Vet Bruce Eric Kaplan Details the Hollywood Life in Memoir”. Mr. Kaplan began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991. His latest book is They Went Another Way; A Hollywood Memoir. ________________________________________________________ 1984 Coffee Ad Features Robert Weber Animation (Maybe) My colleague, Joe

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Wednesday Spill: Book Of Interest…The Algonquin Roundtable: 25 Years With The Legends Who Lunch

Book Of Interest…The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years with The Legends Who Lunch My cartoonist colleague, Bob Eckstein brought an episode of Gil Roth’s Virtual Memories Show podcast to my attention this morning (thanks Bob!). Mr. Roth has interviewed Mirana Comstock, who edited (her grandfather) Konrad Bercovici’s The Algonquin Round Table: 25 Years With The Legends Who Lunch — a

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Tuesday Spill: At Last! Barbara Shermund’s Obit In The Paper Of Record; Gil Roth Interviews David Sipress; Bill Woodman’s Obit In His Hometown Paper, “The Bangor Daily News”

How wonderful to open yesterday’s New York Times and see the above. The piece, written by Janaki Challa, had been online for days on the Times website, but there’s something more, um, “real” about seeing an article in the actual publication.   I have seen at least one online mention that Ms. Shermund’s passing in 1978 was “ignored” by the Times,

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