Friday Spill: Bruce Eric Kaplan Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Attempted Bloggery Tracks A Wednesday Addams Original; More Insectopolis; “Giddydown”

Bruce Eric Kaplan Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Bruce Eric Kaplan (BEK) is the latest guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Listen to it here (It’s episode # 204 for those keeping track). Mr. Kaplan, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991, appears in the upper left of this screenshot.

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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of October 21, 2019; Head-Scratching Quote Of The Year; Addams’s Wednesday

The Cover: a somewhat menacing image by Mark Ulriksen that could’ve easily been used for Halloween (all it needs is a witch riding through the sky on a broom). But its title “Towering Wealth” heavily suggests a tie-in to this special Money Issue. Read a Q&A with Mr. Ulriksen about his cover here. The Cartoonists: The Cartoons: Random thoughts after

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