Eustace Tilley Cufflinks Of Interest From Attempted Bloggery, September 23, 2025, “Eustace Tilley New Yorker Cuffllnks” Stephen Nadler, the fellow behind the Attempted Bloggery curtain, takes a look at these interesting, and somewhat mysterious pieces (the set above are part of the Spill archives). “Mysterious” because there seems to be, at the moment, only one other known pair (offered and
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A Treasure Trove Of Obscure Charles Addams Drawings Via Attempted Bloggery Here’s something appropriate for a “Wednesday” Spill: 51 Charles Addams cartoons that appeared in his mid-to-late 1950s strip, Out Of This World. It’s not a stretch to suggest that most of us have never seen the majority of these drawings before. Go here to see them on Attempted Bloggery
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Liza Donnelly On Helen Hokinson From Liza Donnelly’s Substack, Seeing Things, July 24, 2025, “The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson” — Ms. Donnelly writes about the terrif Ms. Hokinson, whose work is featured alongside many other New Yorker cartoonists in Ms. Donnelly’s upcoming documentary, Women Laughing.* A snippet from Donnelly’s Seeing Things piece: “Hokinson started at The New Yorker in 1925, her
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Attempted Bloggery’s Arno Quest It took a long long time — decades! — for Attempted Bloggery‘s Stephen Nadler to complete a Peter Arno quest that involved original Arno art, a New York City gallery, a now defunct humor magazine, and, of course, persistence. Read about it here. ____________________________________________________ Peter Arno’s A-Z Entry: Peter Arno Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr., January 8,
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