Tag: Cartoonists

Friday Spill: Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” NYC Premiere; Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; Interview Of Interest…Tommy Siegel; An Addams Cover

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________________________________________________________________________ A Halloween drawing from me to you. It appeared in The New Yorker, October 30, 2000. _____________________________________________________________________ Women Laughing NYC Premiere November 15, 2025 At DOCNYC Women Laughing, Liza Donnelly’s documentary film about women cartoonists of The New Yorker, will have its New York City premiere November 15th at the DOCNYC Film Festival. More about the film, and ticket purchases

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Thurber Thursday: John Updike’s Want List At 17; Unfortunate Cover Art; More Spills…Phillipe Halsman’s Thurber Photo…Bernstein’s “Thurber: A Biography” Dust Jacket

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John Updike’s Want List At 17 Noted in the just published Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff: a postcard sent by a 17 year old John Updike to Barnes & Noble, dated June 15, 1949, requesting the following books be held for him: ______________________________________________________________ Unfortunate Cover Art By now, I shouldn’t be surprised when I run across

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Wednesday Spill: Personal History…Dust Jacket Of Interest…Charles Addams’s “Here At the New Yorker”

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Personal History…Dust Jacket Of Interest…Addams’s Here At The New Yorker   Charles Addams’s dust jacket art for Brendan Gill’s 1975 Here At The New Yorker remains, to this day, my favorite of all the books out there about the magazine. I was still in college the year the book was published; Gill’s book, along with Burton Bernstein’s Thurber: A Biography

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