Weekend Spill: Attempted Bloggery On An Auctioned Addams Family Original; The Tilley Watch Online, The Week Of July 18-22, 2022; The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Pod

Attempted Bloggery On An Auctioned Addams Family Original    From Attempted Bloggery, July 22, 2022,  “Charles Addams: Wednesday’s Grades”  — a report on the recent Sotheby’s auction of an original Addams Family drawing. Spoiler alert: it didn’t go cheap.    ___________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, July 18-22, 2022 An end of the week listing of New Yorker artists whose work

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Tuesday Spill: Substack’s “Reading Room” With Liza Donnelly; Lit Hub’s “Write-Minded” With David Sipress

Substack Reading Room… Liza Donnelly Liza Donnelly, whose first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1982, talks favorite books, writers and Substacks. Read it here.         _______________________________________________________________________ David Sipress On Lit Hub David Sipress is the guest on Lit Hub’s “Write-Minded.” Mr. Sipress, whose well-received memoir, What’s So Funny? came out in March, began contributing to The

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Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of June 20, 2022

The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: Juneteenth The Cartoonists & Cartoons: Fourteen cartoons, fourteen cartoonists. Two duos that we know of (the Spill counts duos as one cartoonist). One newbie: Anjali Chandrashekar, who is the 14th new addition to the magazine’s cartoonist stable this

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