Easter Sunday Spill It’s a Spill Easter tradition to post this long ago rejected cover submission (“long ago” as in the William Shawn era). I was painting on board then, using watercolors
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Tag: Charles Addams
Friday Spill: From Spain…Two Charles Addams Collections
Over the years, I’ve shown a lot of non-US James Thurber book covers. When I ran across these Charles Addams books published in Spain (the top one in 2009 and the one below it in 2017) it dawned on me that it would be fun to hunt for non-US covers by other New Yorker artists. So I’ll be on the
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Weekend Spill: Latest Addition To The Spill Library…A Bound Volume Of New Yorker Covers; The Tilley Watch Online, February 26 – March 1, 2024
Latest Addition To The Spill Library: A Bound Volume Of New Yorker Covers It’s usually the unexpected odd items that turn up on Ebay that I find most interesting. The most recent example is a thin bound volume of New Yorker covers that showed up a few weeks back (the covers were detached from single issues). The covers are beautifully
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Wednesday Spill: A Fave New Yorker Valentine’s Day Cover
Possibly my all-time fave New Yorker Valentine’s Day cover. From the one, the only, Charles Addams. Published February 16, 1981. It was used as the cover of his 1981 collection, Creature Comforts. I don’t remember many moments of being so wowed by a cover that the moment of first seeing it stayed with me (another such moment was when Steinberg’s
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