Stoliar’s Addams Birthday Salute With Steve Stoliar‘s permission, I’m showing you his Addams Birthday tribute in its entirety (as seen on Facebook): On this day in 1912, Charles Samuel Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. His macabre cartoons festooned copies of “The New Yorker” magazine from 1933 until his death in 1988 and – of course – spawned “The
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Steinberg & Eames From Eames Office, May 16, 2023, “In A Circus Ring With Saul Steinberg”— a fun piece with plenty of photos. My thanks to Stephen Nadler, the man behind the Attempted Bloggery curtain, for sending this my way. Much more reading: The Saul Steinberg Foundation. __________________________________________________________________ The Tilley Watch Online, December 4-8, 2023 An end of the
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Steinberg Spots, Or Cartoons? Steinberg the cartoonist, Steinberg the artist… Steinberg the spot artist? The New Yorker sometimes refers to to its cartoonists as artists, and to its cartoons as drawings (but not exclusively). And so, yes, Steinberg is, according to The New Yorker, an artist and cartoonist. (The New York Times obit of Steinberg called him an “artist and
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A Trusty Summertime Quartet I’ve written before about the summertime New Yorker reading that awaits when my cartoonist colleague (and wife) Liza Donnelly and I make our annual trek to Maine. In that piece about summer reading I didn’t mention the quartet of older New Yorker magazines that also remain year after year in “Vacationland” (we continue working while here, so
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