I thought it would it would be fun to do a sort of quick (upsidedown) family tree of the graphics that swept me along to the present day. If you’ve been reading the Spill for awhile, you’re probably aware of some of this. While it’s my past I’m talking about, some of the “branches” very likely apply to a lot
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Charles Addams’ Biographer Linda Davis On MAD Article of Interest: Charles Addams’s biographer, Linda Davis, on the MAD exhibit currently up at the Norman Rockwell Museum. From The Jewish Federation Of The Berkshires, “Mad About Mad: An Iconoclast Comes To The Norman Rockwell Museum” More information about the exhibit here. _______________________________________________________________________ Maddie Dai, who began contributing to The New
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Ebay Item Of Interest: Male Animal Program I don’t see these on Ebay all that often, so it deserves mentioning here. A really nice program for James Thurber and Elliot Nugent’s play, The Male Animal. James Thurber’s A-Z Entry: James Thurber Born, Columbus, Ohio, December 8, 1894. Died 1961, New York City. New Yorker work: 1927 -1961, with several pieces run
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The Must See Norman Rockwell Museum MAD Magazine Exhibit My cartoonist colleague (and wife), Liza Donnelly and I traveled a short distance north on Sunday to see the truly fab MAD Magazine exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. A big round of applause to the co-curators,
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