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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Back in May of 1939, James Thurber decided to travel west to California to work on The Male Animal, a play he was co-authoring with his old college friend, Elliot Nugent. Told they’d need a car to get around out in California, Thurber and his (second) wife Helen, decided to travel, with the car, by sea. According to Harrison
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Exhibit Of Interest…Liana Finck Liana Finck has announced her first solo exhibit. The show, at the Lyles & King gallery in Chinatown, will run from December 2, 2025 — December 20, 2025. Work shown will be unpublished. Information here. Ms. Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. _____________________________________________________________________ A New Yorker State Of
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______________________________________________________________________________ Interview of Interest…Emma Allen From a Substack I somehow missed…until now: Saran Wrapped Letters, September 28, 2025, “A Conversation With Emma Allen” Ms. Allen has been The New Yorker‘s cartoon editor since May of 2017. _____________________________________________________________________________ Women Laughing Screens Online Couldn’t make it to the New York City screenings of Women Laughing, Liza Donnelly’s documentary film about New
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