Personal History: A Note From Willard Scott Back in the early 1980s I happened to stay overnight at a home belonging to a couple with a toddler. In the morning (a time of day I was not accustomed to seeing in those years…I was a night owl) the child appeared next to me (I was asleep on the living room
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Mick Stevens On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast The one-and-only Mick Stevens is the latest guest. Hear it here. Mr. Stevens first New Yorker cartoon appeared in the very last issue of 1979. _______________________________________________________________________ Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon Thursday’s Daily Cartoon is by Zoe Si, who began contributing to The New Yorker in February of 2020.
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P.C. Vey Interviewed On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Here’s the very latest episode of The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast…this one with guest, P.C. Vey. Enjoy! Mr. Vey began contributing to The New Yorker in 1993 (in the episode you’ll learn he was contributing ideas — Charles Addams’s name pops up — previous to his own drawings showing up in
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Ads From Gluyas Williams & William Steig Warren Bernard is back at it, happily scanning ads for us to enjoy. Here’re just a few from his latest batch sent to the Spill. My thanks as always to him for foraging, selecting, scanning, and sending! Gluyas Williams* The Saturday Evening Post, November 8, 1941, and below, Collier’s, March 14, 1942 Peter Arno** Look,
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