New Yorker Cartoonist to Talk About the Art of Cartooning

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Williamstown – David Sipress, a New Yorker cartoonist, will give a talk titled "Get it? The Art of Cartooning and the New Yorker," on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 8 p.m. The event will be held in Lawrence Hall, room 231. It is free and open to the public. More than 250 cartoons by Sipress have appeared in the New Yorker since 1998. His cartoons and editorial illustrations have also appeared in Playboy, Harper's, The Funny Times, Utne Reader, The Washington Post, and Spectator of London, among others. He is the author of eight cartoon books and the producer and host of "Conversations with Cartoonists," a series of live interviews with some of the leading artists of the New Yorker, staged over the past year in New York City. Sipress will talk about the art of cartooning. He uses cartoons projected on a screen to talk about the profession, about his own work, and about the work of other cartoonists he admires. He tries to make the presentation not just funny -- the cartoons themselves usually take care of that -- but also informative about an under-discussed and much loved art form. He will discuss the unique way in which cartoons combine drawing and writing, about how cartoonists employ both skills, about being funny, about the whole 'coming up with ideas' issue, and, of course, about the New Yorker. He will hold a Q&A session after his formal comments. Initially inspired by European "gag" cartoonists, he also cites Saul Steinberg and other New Yorker cartoonists as his main influences. His drawing style is loose, personal, and most importantly, always built around the foundation of a funny but resonant joke. He graduated from Williams College in 1968. The lecture is sponsored by the departments of art, anthropology/sociology, Russian, the Williams College Museum of Art, and the Lecture Committee.
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Stockbridge Grange Community Dinner

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — The Stockbridge Grange is holding a community dinner on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026, featuring spaghetti and meatballs, salad, and bread with dessert choices of chocolate cream or lemon meringue pie.
 
Dinner is $17.00 per person, take out only with 12-1:30 pm pick up at the Stockbridge Grange Hall at 51 Church Street, Stockbridge.  Orders may be made by calling 413-243-1298 or 413-443-4352. 
 
Inclement weather postpones the meal for a week.
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