Tuesday Spill: A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of December 21, 1935; Attempted Bloggery Looks At Addams’ Unicorn And Bliss’s; The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast; A Note Of Thanks

A New Yorker State Of Mind Looks At The Issue Of December 21, 1935

A New Yorker State Of Mind: Reading Every Issue Of The New Yorker Magazine closes out 2025 with its patented close look-see of n issue from long long ago. In this case it’s the issue of December 21, 1935

Read here.

–Cover: Ilonka Karasz

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Attempted Bloggery On Addams’ Unicorns and Bliss’s

From Attempted Bloggery, December 28, 2025, “Charles Addams: A Legacy of Unicorns”

Stephen Nadler, the fellow behind the AB’s curtain, compares and contrasts unicorn cartoons, with an emphasis on Charles Addams New Yorker 1956 classic drawing.

—Drawing shown: Charles Addams’s unicorns as published in The New Yorker, March 10, 1956

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The Latest Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

A Spill fave podcast ends its year with a shortened, yet no less fun, episode (#232 for those keeping track). Listen here.

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A Note Of Thanks

As Ink Spill heads into its 19th year, I’d like to offer my thanks to all of you who have visited, commented, and emailed (as well as donated materials to the archive).

2025 was a banner year for Spill with more “hits” than ever before. The New Yorker‘s centenary celebration most certainly heightened interest in what the magazine’s cartoonists were up to, how they celebrated and were celebrated. I’m so looking forward to covering whatever happens next year, New Yorker cartoon and cartoonist-wise.