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Pete Docter: Sulley, Mike, and Boo!
"Monsters, Inc." director Pete Docter made this sketch of characters James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, Mike Wazowski, and Boo for a 2012 children's charity event. The prequel "Monsters University" is being...
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Mike Wazowski by Pete Docter
For a 2012 children's charity event, "Monsters, Inc." director Pete Docter made this lively marker sketch of the character Mike Wazowski. It is currently offered on eBay.Pete Docter, Marker Sketch of...
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Mike Wazowski by David Silverman
Noted animator David Silverman created this expressive sketch of the character Mike Wazowski from "Monsters, Inc." It was sold on eBay last month for less than $100.David Silverman, Sketch of Mike...
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Thoughts of Spring: André François New Yorker Cover Art
This rather unconventional artwork for the cover of The New Yorker is by André François. It is executed on a burlap bag in charcoal and oil. It was published in the spring of 1963. Although one is...
View ArticleAttempted Bloggery: Two Years and Counting
It was two years ago today that I unleashed my spanking new blog on an unsuspecting world. Beforehand, I had produced no trial posts and I had no master plan. I just began doing it and I suppose that...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #385
Please pull over to the side of the road and check out my latest entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #385 for June 24, 2013. The drawing is by Christopher Weyant."Look, we can work through...
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Central Park: Ilonka Karasz New Yorker Cover Art
Original artwork for a 1928 springtime cover of The New Yorker by Ilonka Karasz has been available for a short while on eBay, offered by a seller in the U.K. The red and green pigments particularly...
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Poison Ivy: Ilonka Karasz New Yorker Cover Art
An eBay seller in the U.K. currently offers two examples of original New Yorker cover art by Ilonka Karasz. The example presented in yesterday's post had what the seller referred to understatedly as...
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Street Scene: Paul Degen Preliminary New Yorker Cover Art
Well, this is a bit different. The eBay seller of this original unsigned artwork by Paul Degen states that it is a cover proposal for what was eventually The New Yorker's cover of June 9, 1980. In an...
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Tailored for War: Perry Barlow New Yorker Cover Art
In 2009, an example of original New Yorker cover art by Perry Barlow was sold at Heritage Auctions. The 1942 illustration imagines a world where a well-to-do young man prepares for wartime by heading...
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Rites of Spring: James Thurber New Yorker Cover Art
Spring is definitely in the air in this original artwork for The New Yorker of April 27, 1940. Is it my imagination, or do the men seem a bit overwhelmed? James Thurber's idyllic cover illustration...
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Dialogue of Sardinia and Paris: Saul Steinberg Original New Yorker Art
My little survey of original New Yorker cover art continues with this disarming example by the brilliant Saul Steinberg. Needless to say, it is not your typical magazine cover from the early 1960's,...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #386
The doctor is in! Here is my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #386 for July 1, 2013. The drawing is by P. C. Vey."I believe you do have a very serious problem, Mr. Reynolds, but it isn't...
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Minnie Liberty
Back in 2005, five and a half years before I started this blog, I snapped a few pictures in the Disney Store and enthusiastically posted them on flickr. As it turns out, I did not keep posting on this...
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James Montgomery Flagg's "I Want You" Poster
James Montgomery Flagg's most popular and enduring work by far is the "I Want You for U.S. Army" recruiting poster from 1917. The artist himself served as the model for Uncle Sam. James Montgomery...
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Rick Griffin: Mickey Mouse Wants You
Rick Griffin takes James Montgomery Flagg's iconic World War I "I Want You" poster and has some fun with it for Walt Disney. Later Alton Kelley frames the preliminary drawing.Rick Griffin,Mickey Mouse...
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Flagg's Uncle Sam ALS
An outstanding letter from James Montgomery Flagg, surely the greatest Uncle Sam illustrator of all time, was sold at Heritage Auctions in 2007. Can you imagine being the recipient of such a...
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Peter Max: Statue of Liberty Serigraph
This serigraph entitled Statue of Liberty by Peter Max caught my eye because it's from the same U.K. eBay seller with the original Ilonka Karasz New Yorker cover art I wrote about just recently here....
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Al Hirschfeld's "1776"
Theatre caricaturist Al Hirschfeld produced this illustration of the original cast of "1776" for The New York Times issue of March 1, 1969. John Adams (William Daniels) is shown quill pen in hand...
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Blog Post No. 800: Think Locally, Blog Globally
Welcome to my 800th blog post! I couldn't have asked for a nicer visitor.Google provides many nifty statistical tools to its bloggers, and I admit to being fascinated by some of them. While I don't...
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