Uncle Fester’s In The House The other day I mentioned that Burger King was offering up six different Addams Family toys. I’ve made it
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Tag: Tom Chitty
Weekend Spill: A Good Book; The Tilley Watch Online, March 6-10, 2023; Donnelly On Day Four Of Oscar Week: “Oscar Statue Day”
A Good Book I discovered Joe Mitchell‘s delightful My Ears Are Bent when I was researching my biography of Peter Arno. All of the pieces were written when Mitchell was a newspaperman, before he joined The New Yorker in 1938. Of particular interest to Spill readers are Mr. Mitchell’s three pieces on three stellar New Yorker artists: William Steig, Helen
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Weekend Spill: New Yorker Cover Artist, Istvan Banyai: 1949-2022; The Tilley Watch Online, February 13-17, 2023; Book On The Horizon From Ellis Rosen; Late Library Addition: A National Lampoon Treasury
New Yorker Cover Artist, Istvan Banyai: 1949-2022 The New York Times has reported the death of Istvan Banyai, who, contributed “more than a dozen” covers to The New Yorker, including the one shown here. The Times notes that Mr. Banyai died in mid-December of 2022. From The Norman Rockwell Museum: “Istvan Banyai” Wikipedia entry: “Istvan Banyai” From The Conde
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Friday Spill: 80 Charles Addams Drawings Exhibited; Online Event…Liza Donnelly In Conversation; Tom Chitty Guests On The Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
80 Charles Addams Drawings Exhibited From NewsChannel5/Nashville, this video piece on an exhibit of drawings by Addams. Read more about the Cheekwood exhibit here. From the link, this description of the pieces: “…approximately eighty works of ink, gouache, and watercolor on paper spanning Addams’ career from the late 1930’s through his death in 1988” And remember: for much much more
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