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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #948
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #948 from the issue of June 16, 2025, a judge hands a basketball from the bench to a man in his courtroom. There is a basket set up behind the judge. A witness...
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Last Night's Swann Salon
Last night I ventured downtown to attend a Swann Salon at the auction house of that name.There was a short preview of the forthcoming "Women Laughing" film documentary which happily exceeded my...
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A Pietra Dura Table Top
Today we turn briefly to furniture seen in a Chicago auction. A fine pietra dura table top, probably of Italian origin, is paired with an ornate, claw-footed, tripod base. Here's looking at you,...
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Jack Ziegler: In Praise of Mom
Tuesday's Illustration Art auction at Swann Galleries in New York had a generous selection of New Yorker art, including a few pieces by Jack Ziegler. His original cartoon from 1993 is as zany a tribute...
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Federico and Sara's Copy of Maus by Art Spiegelman
In 2009, Art Spiegelman used a red marker to personalize a copy of the Italian edition of Maus belonging to fans Federico and Sara. The drawing is of Artie, Spiegelman's alter ego in the book. You can...
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Thomas Nast: The Great Refracting Telescope at Washington, D.C.
In May of 1881, Thomas Nast took on the Star Route scandal in Harper's Weekly. Postmaster-General James is shown using the 26-inch aperture "Great Equatorial" telescope to investigate "The Star Route...
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Gahan Wilson: Apocalypse on Fifth Avenue
Gahan Wilson's original cartoon for the New Yorker issue of January 19, 1998, shows a city undergoing an calamity of apocalyptic proportions."Still, you gotta admit crime is down."Gahan WilsonOriginal...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #949
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #948 from the issue of June 23, 2025, four people in business attire stand on a surfboard riding a wave. The man standing in front, possibly the boss, is...
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The CartoonStock Cartoon Caption Contest No. 194
In the CartoonStock Caption Contest number 194, we find two frankfurters being heated on a hot dog Ferris wheel. The smaller, shriveled hot dog is speaking.The rules of the monthly cash prize contest...
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William Steig: A Woman in the Time of Pericles
On Monday evening, an original book illustration by cartoonist William Steig was sold by Kensington Estate Auctions. It appears in Will Cuppy's humorous 1950 book The Decline and Fall of Practically...
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Peter Arno Signs Mary Brown Warburton's Copy of Hullabaloo
A photo that was originally part of the New York Daily News Archive shows New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno at the tony Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. He is autographing a copy of "his latest opus"...
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Charles Addams: Striking Back at Modernist Architecture
Cartoonist Charles Addams, revered for his work in The New Yorker and, of course, especially for "The Addams Family," was a lifelong student of architectural form. His tastes ran to the gothic and the...
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Rowland B. Wilson: An Alternative to Women's Lib
A Playboy cartoon from 1972 pokes fun at the women's rights movement and offers a more promiscuous alternative. Rowland B. Wilson's original art was sold this week at Heritage Auctions."Don't count on...
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eBay 101: Know Your New Yorker Cover Artists
Readers of this blog are no doubt familiar with the classic depiction of Eustace Tilley which graced The New Yorker's first cover in 1925. The artist, of course, was Rea Irvin and the cover was...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #950
In The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #950 from the issue of June 30, 2025, a hot dog in a clothing store tries on a small bun for size. The saleswoman speaks. My entry appears below. The drawing...
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Lucretia J. Weed's Copy of One Man's Fancy by Charles Saxon
The Charles Saxon collection One Man's Fancy was published by Dodd, Mead & Company in 1977.Front coverBack coverSpineInside dust jacket copyPublisher Lucretia J. Weed's copy is inscribed to her by...
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Gahan Wilson: At the Barber's
An original Playboy cartoon by the irrepressible Gahan Wilson was sold two weeks ago in East Moriches. The setting is a barber shop."The usual, sir?""Yes, please."Gahan WilsonOriginal artPlayboy,...
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Fireworks on Home Video: Lee Lorenz Preliminary New Yorker Cover Art
Two weeks ago, Swann Auction Galleries sold some artistic gems from the estate of Lee Lorenz, the accomplished cartoonist who served as art editor of The New Yorker from 1973 to 1993, and then as...
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Lee Lorenz: A Cookout With Uncle Sam
The original New Yorker cover art for the July 4, 1988, issue by Lee Lorenz was sold at auction on June 17. Here we have Uncle Sam manning the barbecue. His apron says it all.Lee LorenzOriginal artThe...
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Peter Arno: A Signed Publicity Still for "Artists and Models"
Peter Arno is one of six illustrators who appear together in a scene in the 1937 comedy "Artists and Models." The artists appear at a ball and draw Sandra Storme,"England's most famous model," to...
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Joe Dator: Good News
Recently, New Yorker cartoonist Joe Dator listed a number of his original drawings on the Big Cartel website. One of these was published in April of 2020, the month after the COVID-19 pandemic was...
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Richard Taylor and Robert Day for the United States Playing Card Compnay
"How long since you've bought new cards?" asked the United States Playing Card Company back in 1941. Each of their six brands could provide players "with fresh, clean cards" according to their print...
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Alan Dunn: The Uninformed Driver
Johnnycake Books, Inc., of Salisbury, Connecticut, offers a beautiful original New Yorker cartoon by Alan Dunn.                 "Unfortunately, I was waitinguntil 'Unsafe at Any Speed'...
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John and Liza Norton's Copy of The Penguin Edward Koren
Our good friend and frequent contributor David From Manhattan writes of a previously unrecorded creature by New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren:The Penguin Edward Koren, the only book the cartoonist...
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Lucretia J. Weed's Copy of Omnibooth: The Best of George Booth
Lucretia and Peter Weed of Congdon & Weed, Inc., oversaw the publication of a number of cartoon book collections by some of the New Yorker cartoonists whose work we fondly recollect. They include...
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