It’s Easter Sunday, which means this rejected cover attempt of mine from many many years ago has been dusted off and posted. I’d be a liar if I didn’t admit to a bit of Addams influence in the piece. Eckstein & Shaw “Cartoon Pad” Podcast Debuts The fellows who brought you The Elements Of Stress have debuted a bi-weekly
Read moreCover Revealed For Paperback Edition Of Charles Addams Biography Out this coming October from Turner, the paperback edition of Linda Davis’s splendid bio of the late great Charles Addams. Here’s a brief video of the author (holding “Tuesday”) talking about Mr. Addams. Charles Addams’s entry on the Spill’s A-Z: Charles Addams (Born in Westfield, New Jersey, January 7, 1912. Died
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ToonStack, A Cartoon Newsletter ToonStack, a weekly newsletter with numerous cartoonist contributors, all of them, save one, New Yorker cartoonists, has posted its first installment. Each week there’ll be a new “gaggle of [cartoons] on a different theme.”This first post’s theme: Murder. Contributing are Kendra Allenby, Hilary Campbell, Ellis Rosen, Amy Kurzweil, Sofia Warren, Johnny DiNapoli, J.A.K., Navied Mahdavian, and
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The Weekend Spill Fave Photo Of The Day: Donnelly Works On Her “Very Funny Ladies” Cover With the updated and expanded manuscript turned in for the new edition of Very Funny Ladies, Liza Donnelly has turned to the book’s new cover. The photo below taken today in her studio (a room that long long ago was the site of boxing
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