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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Bruce Eric Kaplan Is The Latest Guest On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Bruce Eric Kaplan (BEK) is the latest guest on the always entertaining Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast. Listen to it here (It’s episode # 204 for those keeping track). Mr. Kaplan, who began contributing to The New Yorker in 1991, appears in the upper left of this screenshot.
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A few months back my New Yorker colleague, Paul Karasik, sent in a page from the November 18 1929 issue of Judge that included this drawing by James Trembath (I’m sorry to say I can’t find anything on Mr. Trembath): The artist was gently poking at The New Yorker as well as one of its artists, Otto Soglow, who by
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New Yorker’s 100th Events continue… Two of the latest events connected with The New Yorker’s ongoing centennial celebration… The New Yorker On Jeopardy The New Yorker‘s 100th Anniversary Celebration extended this week to the television gameshow Jeopardy!, where editor David Remnick served up the answers that included an Addams family character (that’s Mr. Addams on
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