NEW YORKER NEWS. First, the sad news: New Yorker cartoonist Donald Reilly has gone the way of Hiram S. Dudson (1930-1993). You can inspect samples of Reilly's work via The New Yorker's Cartoon Bank.

On a more uplifting note: Emily of emdashes is soliciting questions that may or may not be answered by mysterious sources at The New Yorker. Over at Gawker, more than one proposed question seems to indicate a measure of cartoon caption contest fatigue. Imagine that!