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Valentines from Charles Addams. I have remarked here before that Halloween seemed to be the perfect holiday for Charles Addams to show off his macabre flair, but then he did a pretty good job with Valentine's Day as well.
I have remarked here before that Halloween seemed to be the perfect holiday for Charles Addams to show off his macabre flair, but then he did a pretty good job with Valentine's Day as well. I suppose he wasn't as unrelentingly ghoulish as he would have had us believe. There is definitely a romantic side to the creator of The Addams Family.
George Herriman's Krazy Kat is surely the most imaginative and absurd comic strip of all time. The trio of Krazy Kat, Ignatz Mouse, and Of...
Charles M. Schulz (American, 1922-2000) Linus eating signed 'Schulz' (lower right), pen and ink 14.5 x 9cm (5 11/16 x 3 9/16in). Esti...
Sir John Tenniel's original illustrations for Lewis Carroll's Alice books remain familiar even today. Over the years many other fine illu...
The Belvedere Torso, a profoundly influential Hellenistic sculpture by Apollonius the Athenian, is on display in the Vatican Museums: Here...
One of the reasons for all the excitement surrounding Christie's forthcoming sale of Roy Lichtenstein's I Can See the Whole Room!...and The...
In my previous post on the art of Ronald Searle at auction, I discussed the results of a New York sale where three of the four lots faile...
On August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit carried out a daring stunt he'd been planning for six years. He secretly suspended a cable between the twi...
Back in 2009, ABC News filed a request under the Freedom of Information Act for the release of these singular aerial photographs of the Worl...
This iconic Pop Art masterpiece by Roy Lichtenstein will be a featured item on November 8 in Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art sale...
Charles Addams celebrates his favorite holiday: Charles Addams, The New Yorker, November 3, 1986 "I'm sorry, sonny. We've run out o...
Dreamworks Teases ?Guardians? and ?Croods? - Two Dreamworks publicity pieces, created for display at Toy Fair (currently going on in New York), have been leaked online and they pretty look good: First...
Goings On About Town: Venues: Museum of Chinese in America - Open Mondays and Fridays, 11 to 5, Thursdays, 11 to 9, and weekends, 10 to 5. 215 Centre St.
Wolcott Gibbs and New Yorker Cartoons - Of all the duties Wolcott Gibbs attended to during his thirty-one years at The New Yorker (and his duties were many: editor, writer, theater critic), his...
?recipe comix? - I had my ?recipe comix? moment at saveur.com! Click on the excerpt below for the full strip (and recipe)! Tags: recipe,, food,, soup,, modeling,, cooking,,...
New Yorker E-Cards? Pingg?s Got That Covered. - [image: New Yorker E-Cards? Pingg?s Got That Covered.] Introducing a new line of e-greetings featuring the bright colors and brighter wit of *New Yorker* co...