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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #940
The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #940 appeared in the issue of April 14, 2025. A meteorologist stands before a weather map while an indoor rain cloud soaks her. She is the on-air speaker. My...
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Isabel Hartley's Copy of Rip Van Winkle by Arthur Rackham, Signed Copy No....
The 1905 London edition of Rip Van Winkle was published by William Heinemann. The book cover proudly boasts that Arthur Rackham is the illustrator while not even mentioning author Washington Irving,...
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Ralph Steadman: No Room to Swing a Cat—But Room to Draw One
Meier and Sons Rare Books of New Canaan is offering a scarce original souvenir drawing from a copy of Ralph Steadman's No Room to Swing a Cat (1989, 1991).Steadman made the drawing of a cat and signed...
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Audrey Adams's Copy of No Room to Swing a Cat by Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman, the ever-inventive illustrator, personalized a copy of No Room to Swing a Cat (1989) to his editor Audrey Adams. He turned her first name into a drawing of what is, very likely, a cat....
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #941
The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #941 appeared in the issue of April 21, 2025. A piano is drinking too much wine at a bar. The bartender speaks to two men in business attire. My entry appears...
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Donald Reilly: On Getting Accepted to Smith College
Cartoonist Donald Reilly's drawing from the July 24, 1971, issue of The New Yorker is one I find a little unsettling even today."I realize acceptance at Smith means little to you at themoment, dear,...
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Charles M. Schulz: Peanuts Piano Dance
The first Peanuts Sunday strip was drawn by Charles M. Schulz early in 1952. Six years later, the original art seen here was produced:Peanuts, February 16, 1958Charles M. SchulzOriginal artThe...
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Arthur Rackham: With One Spring He Rose, and Cleared It at a Bound
Charles O'Malley: The Irish Dragoon by Charles Lever was published in 1897. The book has sixteen illustrations by Arthur Rackham. James Cummins, Bookseller, has just listed the original of one of...
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William Hamilton: Six Rough Drawings
Yesterday, six rough drawings by cartoonist William Hamilton were sold at auction by Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates. One of them is framed. All have significant toning or paper loss. They are all...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #942
The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #942 appeared in the issue of April 28, 2025. A snail with a snail shell speaks to a snail with a tortoise shell. My entry appears below. The drawing is by Amy...
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The CartoonStock Cartoon Caption Contest No. 192
In the CartoonStock Caption Contest number 192, we find two cats, a psychiatrist and a patient, sitting in boxes in the office. The patient is speaking.The rules of the monthly cash prize contest have...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for Spring 2025
Moment magazine's Cartoon Caption Contest for the Spring 2025 issue shows an elderly woman and man sitting on a park bench. The woman prepares to eat a sandwich. The man, oblivious, is feeding a bird....
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A Collaboration at "Drawn From The New Yorker: A Centennial Celebration"
One unusual piece on view at the Society of Illustrators on the East Side is a sequential drawing with contributions by four New Yorker artists: Mick Stevens, Roz Chast, Liza Donnelly, and Jack...
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Gahan Wilson: Hold All Calls?
South Bay Auctions offered up an original New Yorker cartoon on Wednesday, one that was quite fashion forward:"Hold all calls for the next fifteen minutes, Miss Hammish."Published as "Please hold my...
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The Lady of the Lake: Charles Addams Original New Yorker Cover Art, Part 2
I reported on a golf-themed New Yorker cover original illustration by Charles Addams back in 2017 when it was offered for sale by Taraba Illustration Art. Then freshly released from the collection of...
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Charles Addams: A Job for Miss Egan
An original New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams was sold at Heritage's Mainstream Illustration sale on Friday. The drawing was in the private collection of archaeologist Iris Love and gossip columnist...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #943
The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #943 appeared in the issue of May 5, 2025. Three cats in contemporary dress are seen in a showroom with dilapidated furniture. A sales-cat wearing a tie shows a...
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The Gambler's Nightmare: Original Abner Dean New Yorker Cover Art
Two of Abner Dean's five published New Yorker covers showed up on the auction block last week. The first of these was given the title Gambling Nightmares by Heritage Auctions. I've modified this to The...
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Totem Pole: Abner Dean Original New Yorker Cover Art
The second New Yorker cover original by cartoonist Abner Dean to be sold on May 2 at Heritage Auctions was a work originally published in 1934. It depicts a tourist making an unusual discovery when...
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Alan's Copy of More Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
More Peanuts (1954) was an early hardcover collection of Peanuts comic strips by Charles M. Schulz. One Alan's copy has an origiinal drawing of Charlie Brown signed by the author. The condition is only...
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William Steig: Mother and Child
Original art by William Steig celebrates that special relationship between mother and child. A woman is shown sleeping in bed with her baby. It is a published piece, with printer's marks, from an...
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Robert Day: The Trouble With Harry
An original Robert Day cartoon that appeared in The New Yorker in October of 1961 was sold at Heritage Auctions on May 2. Heritage's caption is not as tightly worded as the published one; possibly the...
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Richard Taylor: The Metamorphosis
Richard Taylor's illustration The Metamorphosis gives us a cartoonist's interpretation of the opening scene of Franz Kafka's 1915 novella. Taylor renders the face of the "monstrous vermin" of the book...
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Abe Birnbaum: Sandlot "Baseball Game"
An original illustration by Abe Birnbaum (1899-1966) depicts boys playing sandlot ball. It was sold in Seattle on May 11 with the title "Baseball Game." Birnbaum's work is celebrated for his many New...
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J. B. Handelsman: Gone Fishing
An original New Yorker cartoon by J. B. Handelsman (1922-2007) was sold ealier this month in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The tranquility of the setting is undercut by the caption with not one but two...
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