Friday Spill: Jason Chatfield Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; New Yorker Illustrator, Mark Zingarelli, 1952-2025; Lonnie Millsap At The L.A. Times Festival Of Books; Book On The Horizon…Bob Eckstein’s “Inspired By Cats: Writers And Their Mews(es)”

Jason Chatfield Is The Latest Guest on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast celebrates its 200th episode. Jason Chatfield, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017, is on hand for the festivities. Listen here.  — Photo: clockwise from top left…co-host Nicole Chrolavicius, co-host Paul Nesja, Jason Chatfield, co-host Vin Coca, and co-host Beth Lawler. 

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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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Friday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Day…Perlman, Si, Donnelly, Allen; A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Deep; Attempted Bloggery On Mary Petty; A Return Visit To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

  From last night’s Society of Illustrators “Cartoonists In Conversation,” l-r: panelists Asher Perlman, Zoe Si, moderator Liza Donnelly, and The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor, Emma Allen (behind them, on the wall, two New Yorker originals: one by Helen Hokinson and the other by Otto Soglow. They’re just two of the 100+ New Yorker originals included in the Society’s current exhibit,

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Friday Spill: William Haefeli Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Mary Petty Draws Alan Dunn; Events Surrounding The Society Of Illustrators “Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Exhibit”; George Price For Hoover; Early Cover Release For Next Week’s New Yorker

William Haefeli Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast William Haefeli (above, in the v-neck sweater) who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998 joins the CCCP‘s co-hosts (l-r) Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, and Vin Coca (it’s episode #186, for those keeping track).  Listen here.  _________________________________________________________________ Mary Petty Draws Alan Dunn Here’s an ad for Alan Dunn’s 1931 collection,

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