Fab biographer, Linda Davis (Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, and Onward and Upward: A Biography of Katharine S. White) is the most recent guest on the Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Photo above, from top left, going clockwise: Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Vin Coca, and Ms. Davis. Listen here. Here’s the must-have 1991 Charles Addams anthology mentioned by Ms. Davis on
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Weekend Spill: Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of May 8-12, 2023; More Spills…Ed Koren’s Film Debut; Documentary Film: “Saul Steinberg’s Line”; Ivan Ehlers’ Graphic Account Of The Writers’ Strike Picket Line; A ToonStack Tribute To Sam Gross; Wertz Reviewed; Finck’s TED; Chast & Flake Talk; Caption Contest Podcast Begins New Feature; Happy 90th, Sid Harris!
Tilley Watch Online…The Week Of May 8-12, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Maggie Larson, Ellis Rosen, Brooke Bourgeois, Adam Douglas Thompson, David Sipress, Brendan Loper. Daily Shouts: Suerynn Lee, (Ginny Hogan) with J.A.K. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Weinstein, Cosby, And Trump Play Around” ___________________________________________________________-
Read moreFriday Spill: New Yorker Cover Artist And Writer, Bruce McCall…1935 – 2023; From The Better Late Than Never Department: Enrique Riveron Added To The A-Z; Jason Chatfield Guests On Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Book Event Of Interest…Julia Wertz
Bruce McCall…1935-2023 Bruce McCall, who contributed more than 80 covers to The New Yorker (and as many humor pieces) passed away today at age 87, according to The New York Times. Mr. McCall’s work was also closely associated with the National Lampoon. Mr. McCall’s and David Letterman’s This Land Was Made For You and Me (But Mostly Me) —
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Friday Spill: Bruce Petty…1929-2023; Early Release…New Yorker Cover; Video Interview Of Interest…Zareen Choudhury; Amy Kurzweil’s New Book; Ed Himelblau Is Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Guest
Bruce Petty…1929-2023 Mr. Petty, who contributed 62 cartoons to The New Yorker between 1959 and 1969, died yesterday at age 93. From The Daily Cartoonist, April 6, 2023: Bruce Petty And here’s an obit from his home country: The Sunday Morning Herald, April 6, 2023, “Bruce Petty, Cartoonist, Sculptor, and Oscar Winner, Dies Age 93” His first New Yorker cartoon
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