Anjali Chandrashekar Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Anjali Chandrashekar, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2022 is this week’s guest on the always fun Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast (it’s Episode #225 for those keeping track). Listen here. Link to Anjali Chandrashekar’s website here. ____________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of Mind Dives Into The Issue Of October
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Fave Photo Of The Week Emily Nussbaum (a New Yorker writer, shown below top row, center)) posted this photo on social media yesterday. The photo was taken in Ellenville, New York for the occasion of a panel “Drawing Funny: Jewish Humor and the Art of the New Yorker Cartoon” at the Borscht Belt Fest 2025. Ms. Nussbaum moderated. In the
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____________________________________________________________________ Every artist has their own graphic vocabulary — those favorite elements they return to again and again. Some do it out of habit, others out of affection (love even!). I recently looked at a lot of William Steig’s work. One thing that occurred to me as I looked through: he really liked trees. For example, here are some Steig
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High Bar: The New Yorker’s 1979 Anniversary Issue On a recent podcast, I mentioned my tendency to avoid using “best” — you know: best cartoonist, best cartoon, best cover, best pizza, etc., etc.. (I also avoid using “worst”). With that in mind, I won’t go as far as saying the 1979 anniversary issue of The New Yorker is the best
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