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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1006
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1006 from the issue of September 21, 2026, a psychotherapist is talking to his patient as Godzilla appears at the office window. My submission is shown below....
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The CartoonStock Cartoon Caption Contest No. 210
What's up with the CartoonStock Caption Contest number 210? It features a girl talking to a firefighter while an elephant sits in a tree. That's what's up. The cartoonist is Rusty Epstein. He's new to...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1005
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1005 from the issue of September 14, 2026, a couple who just got married has stopped to fill up the tank. The groom has just finished pumping gas. The pump...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1004
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1004 from the issue of September 7, 2026, a carries drinks to a seated man while her dog brings him a chessboard set up for play. The woman speaks. My...
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John Anderson's Copy of Think Good Thoughts About a Pussycat by George Booth
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques of New York City is offering a very special copy of George Booth'sThink Good Thoughts About a Pussycat (1975). The half-title page is signed and inscribed with an...
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Wallace Wood for Portage Porto-Ped Shoes
"The Abominable Squeaks." So reads the copy of a 1960s-era magazine advertisement for Portage Porto-Ped Shoes. Four vignettes by the formidable Madmagazine artist Wallace Wood depict the untold...
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William Steig for Portage Porto-Ped Shoes
In yesterday's post, we saw a single cartoon copper tray featuring a drawing by New Yorker cartoonist William Steig to promote the National Shoe Institute in 1951. So far as we know, that was his sole...
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William Steig: National Shoe Institute Copper Tray by Bernäd Creations
In 2023, the Charles Addams memorabilia specialist Joel Jacobus informed us here of a series of advertisements on copper trays promoting Cole of California swimwear. The trays were manufactured by...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1003
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1003 from the issue of August 24 & 31, 2026, a couple at a black tie event observe a popsicle who is attending as well, drink in hand, melting. The man...
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John Cuneo: Batman
This past March, I visited the illustrator John Cuneo's online shop or "bodega," as he calls it. I purchased a sketchbook page based on a favorite comic book and television hero of my youth. The...
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The Angel of Inspiration: Ronald Searle Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
The Angel of Inspiration is a title provided by the Chris Beetles Gallery for a cover submission to The New Yorker by Ronald Searle. The original art looks as if it dates from the early 1960s, a time...
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Sight Unseen: George Sprott (1894-1975) With an Original Drawing of . . .
In June, a Canadian bookseller offered a copy of Seth's 2009 opus George Sprott (1894-1975) with an original drawing. The listing showed only the usual stock photo. It's frustrating when this happens,...
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Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz With a Drawing of Schroeder
Charles M. Schulz began his Peanuts comic strip in 1950 and in 1952 published the first of what would come to be many collections. It was simply named Peanuts. A copy of a later printing of the first...
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The CartoonStock Cartoon Caption Contest No. 209
Another monthly contest already? The CartoonStock Caption Contest number 209 is set in a laboratory where an ape is perhaps doomscrolling on his cell phone while a pair of researchers looks on. The man...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1002
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1002 from the issue of August 17, 2026, four monkeys sing in a barbershop quartet while two laboratory workers observe them through glass. The older woman...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1001
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1001 from the issue of August 10, 2026, four snails sit around a campfire at night. One holds a flashlight to his face and speaks. My submission is shown...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1000
We finally made it to The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #1000! It is from the issue of August 3, 2026, two men look upon a stone in which many swords are buried nearly up to their hilts. The man...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #999
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #999 from the issue of July 27, 2026, a couple seated in their living room look up at a giant hole in a wall where an elephant has just gone out. The man...
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Roger K.'s Copy of Quelques artistes et gens de lettres by Jean-Jacques Sempé
In 1992, Éditions Denoël published Quelques artistes et gens de lettres by Jean-Jacques Sempé, himself a cartoon artist and a man of letters. I don't think this book was ever printed in an English...
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License Plate for a Proponent?
I went out Monday for a Restaurant Week dinner and I was very much in favor of a license plate I noticed along the way. Truthfully, I don't see how one could be against it. Nevertheless, isn't it wrong...
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