Tuesday Spill: A J.C. Duffy Promo Video; Latest Addition To The Spill Archives…Gomez Addams; Substack Debut Of Interest: Tina Brown’s “Fresh Hell”

A J.C. Duffy Promotional Video Here’s a two-and-a-half minute slideshow of J.C. Duffy’s work on Curated Cartoons (where you can buy original New Yorker cartoon art). Mr. Duffy created the video and also provided his own original music. He began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. I believe that the very first meta-New Yorker cartoon was drawn by Mr.

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Tuesday Spill: Fave Photo Of The Week…10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin Hotel: Pub Day for Ed Steed’s “Forces Of Nature”; EW Ranks “Every Addams Family Adaptation”

Fave Photo Of The Week: 10 Cartoonists At The Algonquin For Donnelly’s “Women Laughing” Doc Filming for Liza Donnelly’s documentary, Women Laughing has been underway for several weeks in New York City. Last Sunday ten New Yorker cartoonists gathered at the fabled Algonquin Hotel in midtown Manhattan for a roundtable discussion. Here’s the group, standing on 44th Street, photographed by

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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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Friday Spill: Chatfield’s New Yorker Softball Update; Addams Family Films Ranked; Chitty Covers the Bystander

From The Spill’s Sports Desk: Chatfield’s Update Jason Chatfield (New Yorker cartoonist & New Yorker softball team member) has filed this update from the field:  After a thrashing at the hands of Forbes in Riverside Park last week (15 to 1… oof!) The New Yorker Softball team had a victory in Central Park against longtime rivals The Paris Review last

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