Wednesday Spill: A Richard Decker Summertime Cartoon; Excerpts From Liza Donnelly’s Documentary Film “Women Laughing” To Be Shown At Swann

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A Richard Decker Summertime Cartoon I came across the below Richard Decker New Yorker drawing the other day (it was published June 28, 1952, not quite midway in his 38 year year run at the magazine). This drawing has so much going for it, I had to stay with it for awhile. I’ve no idea if it was

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Tuesday Spill: Chast A National Endowment For The Arts Medalist; Pub Day for Bruce Eric Kaplan’s “They Went Another Way: a Hollywood Memoir”; Fave Photo Of The Week…An Algonquin Roundtable Of Cartoonists

  Chast A National Humanities Medalist  The Spill congratulates Roz Chast on her award! She began contributing to The New Yorker in July of 1978. More information about the National Endowment for the Humanities Awards and a list of the 2022 and 2023 medalists here.  Here’s the photo & text Ms. Chast posted on social media this morning:   _____________________________________________________________________

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Wednesday Spill: Jules Feiffer At Home; Emily Sanders Hopkins On Her “Women Laughing” Experience; Article Of Interest…Barry Blitt; Latest Addition To The Spill Archive…A Stack Of Cartoonist PROfiles; Burger King’s Addams Family Purple Bun & More

Jules Feiffer’s NYTs Profile From The New York Times, October 8, 2024, “At Home With Jules Feiffer” — the paper of record visits the noted artist & writer in his upstate New York home. Mr. Feiffer began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. In the 2000 Valentine’s Day issue of The New York Times, Mr. Feiffer had this to

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Tuesday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin Hotel: Pub Day for Ed Steed’s “Forces Of Nature”; EW Ranks “Every Addams Family Adaptation”

Fave Photo Of The Week: 10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin For Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Doc Filming for Liza Donnelly’s documentary, Women Laughing has been underway for several weeks in New York City. Last Sunday ten New Yorker cartoonists gathered at the fabled Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan for a roundtable discussion. Here’s the group, standing on 44th Street, photographed by

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