Friday Spill: Charles Addams’ Biographer Linda Davis On MAD; Maddie Dai Guests On Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

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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Thurber Thursday: Ebay Item Of Interest: a “Male Animal” Program; More MAD…Flake & Chatfield In Conversation

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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Tuesday Spill: The Must See Norman Rockwell Museum MAD Magazine Exhibit; Pub Day for Asher Perlman’s “Well, This Is Me”

                      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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