AddamsFest 2024 From Patch.com, September 6, 2024, “Addamsfest Returns to Westfield In October 2024” Note: Jersey’s own, Dan Misdea will be on hand on Sunday, October 6th for a “Cartooning Workshop.” Mr.
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Friday Spill: Just Arrived…”At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker”; Article Of Interest…Paul Noth; Harry Bliss’s Graphic Memoir, “You Can Never Die”
Just In: At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker Was very pleased to find this advance copy in the mail of At Wit’s End: Cartoonists Of The New Yorker (it’ll be out this November, from Clarkson-Potter). Alen MacWeeney has photographed over 50 of
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Tuesday Spill: 56 Years Ago This Week In The New Yorker; Linda H. Davis On Mort Gerberg
56 Years Ago this Week In The New Yorker Regular visitors to the Spill know that I’ve made a habit of pulling bound volumes of “vintage” New Yorkers off the shelf, flipping through and reporting on some of the things that jump out. Here’s a quick tour of the issue of November 25, 1967. Above is a splendid drawing by
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Wednesday Spill: A Trusty Summertime Quartet
A Trusty Summertime Quartet I’ve written before about the summertime New Yorker reading that awaits when my cartoonist colleague (and wife) Liza Donnelly and I make our annual trek to Maine. In that piece about summer reading I didn’t mention the quartet of older New Yorker magazines that also remain year after year in “Vacationland” (we continue working while here, so
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