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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Thurber Thursday: Latest Addition To The Spill Archives…A Thurber Scarf Over the past few years I’ve followed the Richard Farrar New Yorker cartoon scarf pieces posted on Attempted Bloggery. Stephen Nadler, the person behind the AB‘s curtain has shown us scarves decorated with Thurber drawings, Anatol Kovarsky drawings, Mischa Richter drawings, William Steig drawings, and Charles Addams drawings (a recent
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The Tilley Watch Online, December 11-15, 2023 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work has appeared on newyorker.com features The Daily Cartoon: Will Santino, Ellis Rosen, Kit Fraser, Paul Noth, Mick Stevens. Daily Shouts: Olivia de Recat (with Timothy Cahill and Ryan Walls). _____________________________________________________________________________ Book Stories I thought it would be fun, on
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