Stoliar’s Addams Birthday Salute With Steve Stoliar‘s permission, I’m showing you his Addams Birthday tribute in its entirety (as seen on Facebook): On this day in 1912, Charles Samuel Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. His macabre cartoons festooned copies of “The New Yorker” magazine from 1933 until his death in 1988 and – of course – spawned “The
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The Cartoon Pad Pod Is Back New Yorker cartoonists Bob Eckstein and Michael Shaw’s Cartoon Pad returns with a new episode — their “Holiday Show.” The duo, along with their producer, Marty Dundics, chat about all sorts of cartoony things. Listen here. ______________________________________________________________________ A Q&A Of Interest with Peter Kuper From T2Conline.com, December 25, 2023, “Artist/Writer Peter Kuper Politically
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Thurber Thursday: Latest Addition To The Spill Archives…A Thurber Scarf Over the past few years I’ve followed the Richard Farrar New Yorker cartoon scarf pieces posted on Attempted Bloggery. Stephen Nadler, the person behind the AB‘s curtain has shown us scarves decorated with Thurber drawings, Anatol Kovarsky drawings, Mischa Richter drawings, William Steig drawings, and Charles Addams drawings (a recent
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Steinberg & Eames From Eames Office, May 16, 2023, “In A Circus Ring With Saul Steinberg”— a fun piece with plenty of photos. My thanks to Stephen Nadler, the man behind the Attempted Bloggery curtain, for sending this my way. Much more reading: The Saul Steinberg Foundation. __________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, December 4-8, 2023 An end of the
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