Chast & Finck At The New Yorker Festival If you’re looking for something New Yorker cartoonist/cartoon-related at the upcoming New Yorker Festival, this is it: Roz Chast and Liana Finck will be in conversation, joined by the magazine’s cartoon editor, Emma Allen. From the magazine’s schedule: ____________________________________________________________________ Perlman’s Latest Hi, It’s Me Again, Asher Perlman‘s follow-up to Well,This Is Me
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A New Play, “Thurber: Not Unmeaningless” Comes To Cape May, NJ From New Jersey Stage, September 1, 2025, “Classic American Tales Presents Humorous Stories At The Dormer House” — word of a new play to be staged September 11th: “Thurber: Not Unmeaningless comes to The Dormer House on September 11, part of a new solo play conceived, compiled, and edited
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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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Now That’s A Cover! (And An Essay!) The Complete Book of Covers From The New Yorker never fails to surprise me — it almost seems as if someone has added new covers for me to discover since the last time I paged through. The cover above, by H.O. Hofman (his sixth for the magazine in just eleven months), stood out
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