Sunday Spill: “At Wit’s End” Redux

At Wit’s End Redux It’s hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since At Wit’s End came out (it was in stores  November of 2024). Here we are three-quarters of the way through The New Yorker‘s centennial (February of 2025 through February 2026) and At Wit’s End remains the only book out there this year celebrating the magazine’s

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Friday Spill: Peter Kuper Updates His Visit With Jules Feiffer; Liana Finck’s Intro To A Reissued Steinberg Collection; Radio Interview Of Interest: “Celebrating The New Yorker’s Cartoonists”

Peter Kuper Updates His Visit With Jules Feiffer   From The Nation, December 19, 2024, “A Dance to Jules Feiffer At 95” by Peter Kuper, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 2011. Visit Mr. Kuper’s website here.  Mr. Feiffer began contributing to The New Yorker in 1992. More reading here.     _____________________________________________________________ Finck’s All In Line Intro

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Tuesday Spill: “Addams Draws His Jokes With No Words At All”; Article Of Interest…The Daily Heller: “‘New Yorker’ Cartoonists Finally Show Their Faces”

Taking another look through a Life Magazine (dated December 7, 1942) that contains a great article on holiday New Yorker art (“Cartoon Books: “New Yorker” Art Fills New Albums”), I was reminded of this headline that accompanies a double page spread of Charles Addams’ art: Unfortunately I can’t show you the entire piece (you can see the issue’s contents by

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