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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________________________________________________________________________ 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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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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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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