80 Charles Addams Drawings Exhibited
From NewsChannel5/Nashville, this video piece on an exhibit of drawings by Addams.
Read more about the Cheekwood exhibit here.
From the link, this description of the pieces:
“…approximately eighty works of ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper spanning Addams’ career from the late 1930’s through his death in 1988”
And remember: for much much more on Addams’s life & work, there’s Linda Davis’s Addams biography.
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Online Event Of Interest: Liza Donnelly In Conversation With Allison Gilbert
From The Society of Illustrators, word of this free online event with New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly in conversation with Allison Gilbert, author of Listen, World!; How The Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman.
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Tom Chitty Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast keeps (wonderfully) rolling along. This latest episode (#79) features Tom Chitty, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2014. You can hear the pod here.
Photo: from upper left, clockwise…Beth Lawler , Paul Nesja, and Mr. Chitty.
Visit Mr. Chitty’s website here.