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Dean Frey
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aka Deny Fear

📷 Esther Bubley
Man on Platform, c. 1951

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Nicola D'Ascenzo's "His Master's Voice" stained-glass window

"And when you look along the way we've come, there are spirals of vultures wheeling."
- Bruce Chatwin
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Edward Frascino
New Yorker
November 24, 1997

1997’s calendar matches 2025. Beware November 27, if you’re a turkey.
Thanksgiving cartoon: A turkey carries a sign in a turkey farm: The World Will End Nov. 27
November 27, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Jason Adam Katzenstein
New Yorker, December 1, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving 🦃🏈
Cartoon: A Football player poises to catch a Turkey.
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Here's a contact sheet for Jack Robinson's photo session with Tina Turner, November 25, 1969.

The day before her thirtieth birthday.
Twelve shots of Turner dancing
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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An outstanding portrait of Tina Turner by Jack Robinson, New York, November 25, 1969
Turner’s hair flying in the air
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Norman Seeff
Bel Air Sequence, Tina Turner, Los Angeles, 1983
Six shots of Turner dancing
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Tina Turner by Terry O'Neill, 1993
Turner in a short skirt poses in front of a brick wall with the chalk legend Please No Parking.
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Tina Turner by Gilles Bensimon
Turner twirls & her long black dress exposes her legs
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Remembering Tina Turner on her birthday 🎂
📷 Lynn Goldsmith, 1981

"If hers has been the story of triumph rescued from the disaster of childhood neglect & horrendous spousal abuse, ours has been the good fortune to see that redemption rendered in real time as music & spectacle."
- Jesse Green
A smiling Turner dances as she sings
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Roz Chast
The Last Thanksgiving
November 22, 2010
Description: Title: "The Last Thanksgiving." Family seated around Thanksgiving table; each person has arrow pointed to them with labels like "Vegan," "Lactose-Intolerant," “On a cleanse”, “Strictly kosher”, and "Super-picky gourmet."
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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My favourite Roz Chast cartoon:

NewYorker, August 13, 1984
A car with kids in the back drives down a highway. On the side of the road, a sign: Leave Dad Alone - Next 200 Miles
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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The Bluebird of Nothingness, by Roz Chast
New Yorker, May 12, 2014
A man sits in his bed. On his windowsill is the Bluebird of Nothingness: There is no "essential self"! The universe is silent! Man's condition is absurd!
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Happy birthday Roz Chast 🎂
📷 Deborah Feingold, 1986

"I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there's any grudges I should start."
Chast sits in an easy chair with a cat on her lap. Another cat is about to jump up.
November 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Charlie Callas, Frank Gorshin, George Kirby, Orson Welles, Rich Little, Marilyn Michaels, Joe Baker on the ABC TV series The Kopykats, 1972.

Little & Welles met on the show, which led to Little's role in "The Other Side of the Wind".
Welles stands laughing, surrounded by comedians.
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Rich Little cracks up Jack Paar
📷 Curt Gunther, 1973

Today we're celebrating the Canadian impressionist's birthday 🎂

A great Pizza Hut commercial:
youtube.com/watch?v=jktq...
Little continues one of his impressions. Paar, sitting next to him, puts his head back & laughs.
November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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For Charles Schulz’s birthday,

Twiggy by Bert Stern
Vogue, November 1967
Description: Model Twiggy stands wearing a fur jumpsuit with a plastic Sam Browne belt and Snoopy canvas cap.
November 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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A Charles Schulz cover: San Francisco Magazine, April 1964.
San Francisco Making the Scene at Candlestick Schulz draws Charlie Brown on the mound, with a "Candlestick Park" flag flying behind him. Snoopy, with his hat on backwards, shoot him with a TV camera. Lucy heckles from the stands.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Amazing how relevant Charles Schulz is in today's world.
Charlie Brown at his desk, a pencil at his ear: I shouldn't have welcomed her comments...
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Snoopy goes into concussion protocol. As usual, Charles Schulz was years ahead of his time.
Daily Peanuts strip Charlie Brown: Aaugh! We lost the game! Snoopy, in a daze: What happened? Linus comes running: Snoopy got hit on the head with the ball! Snoopy: Why is everything spinning around? Charlie Brown: Call the vet, and tell him we're bringing in a patient!! Charlie Brown & Linus carry Snoopy off. He thinks, Carry me gently, men... I'm a superstar!
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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This is one of Charles Schulz’s greatest strips, from April 17, 1960. He has plenty of room to tell his story, & creates a perfectly modulated narrative, with a wonderful coda.
Sunday Peanuts strip, by Schulz Lucy is leaning on Schroeder's piano. He's playing a Beethoven sonata. Lucy: Schroeder, if I told you that I had the feeling you and I would get married someday, would you chuckle lightly or laugh loud and long? Schroeder: I don't know... It's kind of hard to say offhand. He continues to play... Lucy: Schroeder, I have the feeling that you and I will get married someday. Schroeder laughs at the piano: HA HA HA HA HA HA He walks away from the piano, laughing: HO HO HO HO HA HA HA HA Lucy, alone at the piano: He'd laugh loud and long.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I love how Charlie Brown gets the morning paper in his pyjamas, like Tony Soprano.
Peanuts by Charles Schulz Charlie Brown picks up the paper on the porch. He reads, "School Building Collapses During Night!" Good grief! He reads to Sally, Don't bother to get up, Sally... Our school fell over last night! Listen to this... In the last panel, the school, now a pile of bricks, thinks, I had all I could take!
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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We still haven’t gotten to the bottom, or top, of the genius of Charles Schulz.
- Adam Gopnik

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Title panel of a Sunday strip Linus & Snoopy are dancing. Lucy, with a big frown on her face: "Disgraceful!"
November 26, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Charles Schulz by Paul Fusco, Santa Rosa, 1975

"In a couple of centuries when people talk about American artists, he'll be the one of the very few remembered. And when they talk about comic strips, probably his will be the only one ever mentioned."
- Sergio Aragones
Schulz inks a daily strip with Linus and Charlie Brown
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Charles Schulz's own shyness was an important part of Peanuts. Joe Moran is very good about Sparky's path in Shrinking Violets:

"Schulz knew that shyness has no narrative arc: the shy have to carry on being shy. A daily comic strip was his way of carrying on."

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Peanuts daily strip Charlie Brown: That little red-haired girl is going to move away. I've never even talked to her! I thought I had plenty of time... I though I could wait until the six-grade swin party or the seventh-grade class party. Or I thought I could ask her to the senior prom or lots of other things when we got older but now she's moving away and it's too late! It's too late! Linus: You've got to say goodby to her, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown: I've never even said *hello* to her!!
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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For another Life Magazine feature, from 1967, Bill Ray took this shot of Charles Schulz, his first wife Joyce, & a very un-Snoopy-like dog.
Shot from behind of the couple walking in the woods, with their large dog between them.
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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Charles Schulz by Bill Ray for Life magazine

"His innocent children were fraught with adult-proportioned disappointments, yet their perpetual optimism, & such values as faith, friendship & wonder, sustained the strip with a timeless gentle humor & irreverence."
- Adam Bernstein
Schulz at work on a daily strip.
November 26, 2025 at 6:27 PM