A Mid-1940s New Yorker Clipped Cartoons & Covers Collection A relative in England recently brought over a package of New Yorker cartoons clipped by their father in the mid 1940s. The Spill has a few other New Yorker cartoon collections in its archives (one is in a scrapbook, another contains just New Yorker covers held in a 3 ring binder,
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Addams Darker Work From Den Of Geek, October 5, 2021, “Charles Addams Cartoons Are Far Darker Than The Addams Family Films” Linda Davis, whose Addams biography comes out on the 19th of this month in a new edition, talks about the Addams Family films and more. Charles Addams A-Z Spill entry: Charles Addams (Born in Westfield, New Jersey,
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An Obscure Program With Art By Addams, Arno, Thurber, Soglow…And More Stephen Nadler’s Attempted Bloggery takes a close look at a rare Navy Relief Show Program from 1942, provided to him by Joel Jacobus. As you can see from the page below, the event included work by a number of The New Yorker‘s star artists, including Charles Addams, Constantin Alajalov,
Read moreAt The Miami Book Fair Tomorrow: Liana Finck & Bob Eckstein Catch Liana Finck and Bob Eckstein in a joint appearance tomorrow morning at Miami Dade College. Here’s the info! Above: Ms. Finck’s latest book and Mr. Eckstein’s.* Liana Finck began contributing to The New Yorker in 2013. Visit her website here. Bob Eckstein began contributing to The New Yorker
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