Early Reveal: Next Week’s New Yorker Cover; Cover Exhibit Of Interest: Underground Heroes: New York Transit In The Comics; Addams Hometown Throws Addams Fest in October

 Early Reveal: Next Week’s New Yorker Cover Upcoming New Yorker covers are usually posted early Monday morning, but occasionally we get an advance look.  Barry Blitt is the cover artist for next week’s issue.  _______________________________________________________________ Exhibit Of  Interest: Underground Heroes: New York Transit In The Comics Opening today at the New York Transit Museum in downtown Brooklyn, this fabulous exhibit 

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Summer Bye Bye

Here’s something from the archives — an end of summer piece I submitted to The New Yorker back in the early 1980s. Just a few summers earlier (1976 to be exact) I was a college student working behind the bar and in the kitchen of a restaurant in Cape May making Oceanburgers and the like. This proposed (and rejected) cover

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