Tuesday Spill: A Mick Stevens Exhibit On Martha’s Vineyard; Liza Donnelly On Amy Hwang; Audio Of Interest…Emily Sanders Hopkins With Marshall Hopkins; Oh The Places Cartoons Go!

A Mick Stevens Exhibit On Martha’s Vineyard One of the funniest people on the planet will be exhibiting (some of) his New Yorker work beginning this week. Mr. Stevens began contributing to The New Yorker in 1979. Mick Stevens A-Z Entry: Mick Stevens Born March 11, 1942, Portland, Oregon. New Yorker work: December 17, 1979- . Key collections: If Ducks

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Friday Spill: Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson; Harry Bliss Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Attempted Bloggery On A W.B. Park Ballpark Drawing; Early Info On The 2025 New Yorker Fest

Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her

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Tuesday Spill: New Kickstarter Campaign Launches For Liza Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Documentary Film

New Kickstarter Campaign Launches For Liza Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Documentary Film  Liza Donnelly, who began contributing to The New Yorker over forty years ago, has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to help bring her documentary film, Women Laughing, out into the world. Link here to the Women Laughing Kickstarter Here’s Liza on the film: “I’ve spent the last year co-directing

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