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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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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Attempted Bloggery Looks At An Addams Family Redraw A Spill fave blog, Attempted Bloggery, takes a good long look at a classic Charles Addams drawing — both the published version and a redraw: “The Art of the Redraw: The Addams Family Children Back From Camp.” _____________________________________________________________________ Video Clip Of
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Stoliar’s Addams Birthday Salute With Steve Stoliar‘s permission, I’m showing you his Addams Birthday tribute in its entirety (as seen on Facebook): On this day in 1912, Charles Samuel Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. His macabre cartoons festooned copies of “The New Yorker” magazine from 1933 until his death in 1988 and – of course – spawned “The
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