This month’s contest featured a cartoon by the legendary Mick Stevens, whose work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker since 1979. It’s also featured on the cover of my book, which I’m hoping you’ll buy: In Stevens’ cartoon, two anthropomorphic and identically dressed eggs are standing in front of a high brick wall. One…
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