Tuesday Spill: Lisa Loring, TV’s Wednesday Addams, Has Died; Keith Knight To Lecture; Syd Hoff’s Danny And The Dinosaur To Be A Film

                    Lisa Loring, The Addams Family’s Wednesday Addams, Has Died                                      Read Ms. Loring’s New York Times obit here.  __________________________________________________________________ Keith Knight Speaks At University Of Oregon   Mr. Knight, who began contributing to

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Wednesday Spill: The (Mostly) Best Of The Best in 1950

A Look At The New Yorker’s 25th Anniversary Issue This morning I grabbed a bound volume of New Yorkers off the shelf that includes the magazine’s 25th anniversary issue.   Hmmmm, I thought to myself…1950. interesting time for the magazine, with the semi-modern wave of cartoonists (Saxon, Weber, Lorenz, Miller, etc.) yet to arrive. If we remember that Harold Ross (the

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Tuesday Spill: Drawings From The Charles Rice Collection: Mischa Richter, Charles Saxon, Syd Hoff, VIP, Gardner Rea

 This is a tale of one-thing-leads-to-another. A few weeks ago I posted a link to Mike Lynch’s blog about an article, “Those Cartoonists!” provided to Mike by Dick Buchanan.The article was written by Charlie Rice. Mr. Rice wore many hats over his 60 years, including  author (he collaborated with W.C. Fields on Fields For President), and columnist (“Charlie Rice’s Punchbowl”). He

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