Reminder! Liza Donnelly Guests On Jason Chatfield’s Draw Me Anything! Live Today At Noon (est).
Ms. Donnelly is a long-time New Yorker contributor. She recently directed, with Kathleen Hughes, the short documentary film Women Laughing.
Jason Chatfield began contributing to The New Yorker in 2017.
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Rich Sparks To Guest On The Cartoon Pad Pod
Rich Sparks, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2016 will join co-hosts Michael Shaw (who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1999), and Weekly Humorist’s Marty Dundics this Thursday (Feb 26th). Mr. Sparks new book is Horseshoes and Tardigrades.
You can find the Cartoon Pad pod wherever you get your podcasts.
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Latest Addition To The Spill Archive
Not too many Robert Day New Yorker original drawings have turned up over the years. Was pleased to find the one above. It was published in the issue of November 20, 1937. On the reverse of the drawing: Harold Ross’s* “R” indicating his approval of purchase.
Mr. Day was an incredibly prolific contributor to the magazine: 8 covers and an astounding 1,789 drawings. Here’s how the drawing looked in The New Yorker:
Here’s Mr. Day’s A-Z entry:
Robert Day (photo from This Week anthology, 1954) Born, 1900, San Bernardino, California. Died, February, 1985, Gravette, Arkansas. New Yorker work: 1931 -1976. Collection: All Out For the Sack Race! (Random House, 1945).
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*Harold Ross was The New Yorker’s founder (with his wife, Jane Grant) and the magazine’s first editor.