Weekend Spill: P.C. Vey Interviewed on The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Just In: Krimstein’s “When I Grow Up”; TMI On ToonStack; Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of August 16-20, 2021

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 the magazine).  Link to his website here. 

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Just In:

In the mail, an advance copy of Ken Krimstein’s When I Grow Up, out this November from Bloomsbury.

This comes on the heels of Mr. Krimstein’s acclaimed The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt.

Visit his website here for far more info (you can pre-order the book there too).

Here’s Mr. Krimstein’s entry on the Spill‘s A-Z:

Ken Krimstein (Pictured above, photograph and bio courtesy of the cartoonist) Born, Chicago, Illinois. Raised in Deerfield Illinois. Began drawing at age one. Graduated from Grinnel College and Northwestern University. His work has appeared in “Punch,” “The National Lampoon,” “Narrativemagazine.com,” several cartoon anthologies edited by Sam Gross and in others assembled by King Features “New Breed.” As a writer, he has published in mcsweeneys.net, “The New York Observer,” and has read work as part of “Trumpet Fiction” at KGB bar in New York. Krimstein lives with his wife and three children in Chicago. 

New Yorker work: August 7, 2000 – . Clarkson Potter published a cartoon collection, Kvetch As Kvetch Can, in October of 2010. 

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TMI On ToonStack

ToonStack is a weekly themed offering of cartoons by (mostly) New Yorker cartoonists (this week they all are). The theme on this day:  Too Much Info. The contributors are Hilary Campbell, J.A.K., Ellis Rosen, Navied Mahdavian, Amy Kurzweil, Kendra Allenby, and Johnny DiNapoli.  See all the work here. 

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Tilley Watch Online

An end of week listing of New Yorker artists who contributed to newyorker.com features.

The Daily Cartoon: Navied Mahdavian (with Marta Florio), Emily Flake, Ali Solomon, Zoe Si, Lars Kenseth. 

Daily Shouts: Avi Steinberg (with Irving Ruan)

…and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Hyper-Patriotic Trends” 

 

 

 

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