Tuesday Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of December 21, 1935; Attempted Bloggery Looks At Addams’ Unicorn And Bliss’s; The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; A Note Of Thanks

A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of December 21, 1935   A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine closes out 2025 with its patented close look-see of an issue from long long ago. In this case it’s the issue of December 21, 1935 Read here.  –Cover: Ilonka Karasz    __________________________________________________

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Sunday Spill: Mr. Attempted Bloggery Hunts For A Print Edition; Kyle Bravo Returns To The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Mr. Attempted Bloggery Hunts For A Print Edition From Attempted Bloggery, December 7, 2025, “Annals of Captioning: Hunting for The New Yorker in Print” Mr. AB himself, Stephen Nadler, tells us about his quest to find copies of the December 8th issue wherein his name appears for the very first time in the magazine. ps: I’m saving my copy for

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Saturday Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, November 17 – 21, 2025; More On That Auctioned Arno; Extended Trailer For “The New Yorker At 100”

The Tilley Watch Online, November 17 -21, 2025   An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Brendan Loper, Tom Reese, Will McPhail, Jon Adams, Ali Solomon. See them here in a slide show. Barry Blitt’s Kvetchbook: “The Trump Administration Gives America The Bird” ____________________________________________________________________________ More On That

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Friday Spill: Auctioned Drawings Of Interest…Barbara Shermund, Charles Addams, Peter Arno; Video Of Interest…Bob Eckstein On Jason Chatfield’s “Draw Me Anything”

 Auctioned Drawings Of Interest…Barbara Shermund, Charles Addams, Peter Arno       Attempted Bloggery has reported that a 1949 color piece by Barbara Shermund was auctioned this past Wednesday as well as a 1941 Charles Addams New Yorker drawing.             .See the entire post with full drawings here.       …and in other auction

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