Friday Spill: Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” NYC Premiere; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Interview Of Interest…Tommy Siegel; An Addams Cover

________________________________________________________________________ A Halloween drawing from me to you. It appeared in The New Yorker, October 30, 2000. _____________________________________________________________________ Women Laughing NYC Premiere November 15, 2025 At DOCNYC Women Laughing, Liza Donnelly’s documentary film about women cartoonists of The New Yorker, will have its New York City premiere November 15th at the DOCNYC Film Festival. More about the film, and ticket purchases

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Friday Spill: Early Release Of The April 7, 2025 Cover; Tommy Siegel Is The Latest Guest On the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Paul Karasik Talks Paul Auster; Fave Photo Of The Week…Allen & Chast

Early Release: Barry Blitt’s Cover for Next Week’s Issue As they do every so often, The New Yorker has early released its next cover. In a short piece on its website, the magazine notes that Mr. Blitt has borrowed “the visual imagery of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film, “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.”

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Wednesday Spill: Wheeler, Chast, Chatfield, Donnelly & More On Jules Feiffer; Book On The Horizon…Rea Irvin’s The Smythes; Two Events Of Interest; Celebrating The New Yorker’s 100th Anniversary…25 West 43rd St.

Wheeler, Chatfield, Donnelly, Chatfield, And More On Jules Feiffer From The Comics Journal, February 3, 2025, “Remembering Jules Feiffer” — a number of artists, including The New Yorker folks mentioned above, weigh in on Mr. Feiffer who passed away on January 17th of 2025.     _________________________________________________________________ Rea Irvin’s The Smythes From New York Review Comics, word of a forthcoming

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Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…A Gathering Of West Coast New Yorker Cartoonists; Attempted Bloggery Looks At An Auctioned Richter and Addams; ToonStack/NewsStack; Peter De Seve NYC Exhibit Opens

  Fave Photo Of The Week: A Group Of West Coast New Yorker Cartoonists From sunny California, this sunny group photo: from the left: Theora Kvitka, Tommy Siegel, Erika Sjule, Lila Ash, Ariel Rucker Ehlers, Ivan Ehlers, John McNamee — My thanks to Erika Sjule for permission to use the photo  _____________________________________________________________________ Attempted Bloggery Looks At An Auctioned Richter And

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