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E. Simms Campbell: All the Comforts of Home
In Esquire's July 1952 installment of E. Simms Campbell's"Harem Girls" cartoon, we are treated to an awkward moment between father and son during a break from college. The caption doesn't exactly make...
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E. Simms Campbell: A Mountie on a Mission
A Mountie returns from a mission on which he appears to have gotten sidetracked. E. Simms Campbell's 1941 Esquire gag attempts to relate instantaneously a complex interracial romance that has unfolded...
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Flower Show: Roger Duvoisin Preliminary New Yorker Cover Art
Roger Duvoisin's oil on canvas of the flower show at the Grand Central Palace in New York may have been painted at the opening of the 1937 flower show. By the time it was revised and published on the...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #609
Bite into my footlong entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #609 for March 26, 2018. The drawing is by Michael Maslin."It's an express to the Canyon of Heroes."This one didn't pass...
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E. Simms Campbell: The Bikini Milestone
A problem with many of the older Esquire cartoons, including not a few of those by the talented E. Simms Campbell, is that their primary purpose doesn't seem to be to make us laugh. A case in point is...
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E. Simms Campbell: Support for the USO
The United Service Organizations (USO) was founded in 1941 to improve the morale of the United States Armed Forces. USO centers were opened at home and abroad. The Camp Shows began in October 1941 and...
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Blog Post No. 2500: E. Simms Campbell in Color—Esquire Cartoons from 1935
On Amazon, a seller has taken a number of issues of Esquire from 1935 and carefully removed full-page cartoons, of which there are many, selling them as individual cartoon "prints." We have already...
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National Doctors' Day 2018
On March 30 we celebrate National Doctors' Day. In a 1957 New Yorker cartoon, Peter Arno salutes physicians not only for their ability to maintain a professional demeanor but for their willingness to...
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Ted Key: Ready for Easter
Cartoonist Ted Key brings an imaginative use of color to a mostly black and white cartoon. It was published in The Saturday Evening Post of April 17, 1954."Eggs dyed?"Ted KeyThe Saturday Evening Post,...
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E. Simms Campbell: Unravished Foolery
An Esquire magazine 1938 color cartoon by E. Simms Campbell seems unusual in how tightly-cropped the image is. We are in a young woman's bedroom, evidently, as she is upright in an adjustable bed...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #610
Come in and visit my Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #610 for April 2, 2018. The drawing is by P. C. Vey."How many will you be serving?"These captions were found by the prison warden...
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A Russell Patterson Autograph
Illustrator Russell Patterson recognized E. Simms Campbell's talent early and it was he who suggested that Campbell specialize in drawing women. In a 1944 letter to a fan, Patterson, a prolific...
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No Parade: E. Simms Campbell and Al Johns Share a Caption
A 1935 Esquire cartoon we looked at last week in the big post on E. Simms Campbell has a truly memorable caption about a parade that isn't happening. So does a Saturday Evening Post cartoon from the...
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A Toast to E. Simms Campbell and H. T. Webster
Last week's big post on cartoonist E. Simms Campbell led off with an Esquire gag about a young woman burning the toast. There is a long and unhappily sexist tradition of cartoons about women who can't...
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E. Simms Campbell: Getting Frisky
Let's be clear: the unbecoming conduct described in a 1938 Esquire cartoon by E. Simms Campbellwould be regarded as unprofessional and, it is to be hoped, unacceptable according to any real-world...
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E. Simms Campbell: Stage Direction
This just won't do. An original cartoon by E. Simms Campbell is coming up for auction next week lacking its caption. It could very well be a black and white Esquire cartoon, but there are other...
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E. Simms Campbell: Sleeping Arrangements
It seems fitting that The Pocket Book of Esquire Cartoons, a 1959 paperback edition of selections from The Esquire Cartoon Album: 25th Anniversary Volume (1957),should have on its cover one of the very...
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #611
Swoop into my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #611 for April 9, 2018. The drawing is by Ellis Rosen."Au contraire, I'll be the more adored because I poop in pellets."These other...
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Best Twitter Notification of the Day
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E. Simms Campbell: Show That I.D.
A full-color Esquire cartoon by E. Simms Campbell from 1936 or 1937—the eBay seller used both years in different parts of the listing—will resonate with anyone who has ever sewn his or her name label...
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