Cover 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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The Monday Tilley Watch, The New Yorker Issue Of March 29, 2021
The Monday Tilley Watch Takes A Glancing Look At The Art & Artists Of The Latest Issue Of The New Yorker The Cover: It’s “The Style & Design Issue”…so a designy cover. The Cartoonists: Twelve cartoonists, twelve cartoons; one newbie, Yasin Osman, who is the 6th addition to The New Yorker‘s cartoonist stable this year, and the 84th addition since
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Friday Spill: ToonStack, A Cartoon Newsletter; Latest Addition To The Spill’s Cartoon Library: Sam Gross’s First Cartoon Collection; The Daily Cartoonist & Cartoon
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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Thurber Thursday: Village Nut Club; Daily Cartoonists & Their Cartoons; New Book On The Horizon: A Peter Steiner Thriller
A friend of the Spill who specializes in sending me (scans of) eye-popping books off his shelves, recently sent this in. It’s not the Dr. Seuss illustrated cover that stirred things up around here, or that the book, published in 1933, is by Frank Sullivan (sorry, Seuss, and sorry, Sullivan): No, the exciting thing about this particular copy is what
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