Tag: Charles Addams

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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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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Tuesday Spill: Interview Of Interest…Douglas Florian; Attempted Bloggery Looks At A Charles Addams Redraw

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Interview Of Interest…Douglas Florian I recently came across this article from The Weird Show, September 2, 2023, “Studio Visit: Douglas Florian — Collapsing Grids and Living Language” — a short interview with a Spill favorite New Yorker artist, Douglas Florian, whose work has not been seen in The New Yorker since 1984. Mr. Florian contributed 44 cartoons between March 21,

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Thurber Thursday: Historical Marker

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Historical Marker  I’ve no idea how many New Yorker cartoonists have been honored with a historical marker.* Here’s James Thurber’s in Columbus, Ohio: It rests outside of Thurber House.   More here. _________________________________________________________ James Thurber’s A-Z Entry James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run posthumously. According

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