Weekend Spill: Attempted Bloggery On An Auctioned Addams Family Original; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of July 18-22, 2022; The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Pod

Attempted Bloggery On An Auctioned Addams Family Original    From Attempted Bloggery, July 22, 2022,  “Charles Addams: Wednesday’s Grades”  — a report on the recent Sotheby’s auction of an original Addams Family drawing. Spoiler alert: it didn’t go cheap.    ___________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, July 18-22, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work

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Weekend Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, June 13-17, 2022

An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists who’ve contributed to newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon:Ali Solomon (twice), Ellis Rosen and Brendan Loper, Kaamran Hafeez (with Al Batt), Sofia Warren and J.A.K., Ellis Rosen and J.A.K.. …and Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “Hang Mike Pence?”& “3-D Latte Foam-Art” ________________________________________________________________________________  

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Weekend Spill: Millie von Platen Illustrates NYT’s “Summer Reading” Book Review; The Tilley Watch Online, May 30 – June 3, 2022;

Millie von Platen Illustrates NYTs “Summer Reading”Book Review Congrats to Millie von Platen, who began contributing to The New Yorker in September of 2020, on illustrating much of the current New York Times “Summer Reading” Book Review (including, as you see here, the cover).  Terrif work! ___________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, May 30 – June 3, 2022 An end of

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