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E. Simms Campbell: A Wartime Sacrifice
A wartime "Harem Girls" gatefold cartoon from Esquire shows the ease with which artist E. Simms Campbell could populate his large color cartoons with some two dozen figures, including even three...
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Today's Walk Along the Canal
It was sunny and warm today: the perfect day for a walk along the canal.Turtle GazingCanal ReflectionsTrees Downed in the Canal After Four Nor'EastersGolf Course Bridge02515
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Esquire Cartoon Window Signs, 1935-1937
Magazine covers are designed to sell magazines; that's clearly their job. Window signs produced for Esquire in the 1930s used a different promotional tack, taking advantage of the popular, full-page,...
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Today's Walk: Early Spring
Today was cold, windy, and overcast.A fallen tree threatens some power lines.Cherry treesForsythiaDaffodils02517
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My Entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #612
Chalk up another entry for me in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #612 for April 16, 2018. The drawing is by Tom Toro."I see the crime scene is still evolving."Note: Elementary, me dear Reader....
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E. Simms Campbell and Syd Hoff Back to Back in Esquire, April 1937
A uniformed chauffeur betrays an inappropriate predilection for old world military pageantry in a somewhat clunky cartoon from the April 1937 Esquire. This was a time when German militarism was on the...
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E. Simms Campbell: In Search of a Smoke
Some calamity apparently has struck the apartment of a well-dressed young man in a February 1937 black and white Esquire cartoon by E. Simms Campbell. The cause may be found in the caption. The man's...
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Today's Walk: Berm Collapse
A small part of the pathway has collapsed into the canal.Berm collapseBerm collapse into the canal02521
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Ronald Searle: Traffic
A press photo of a Ronald Searle illustration entitled "Traffic" depicts automobile congestion in Midtown Manhattan. The photo is dated 1970, the year of the first Earth Day, when environmental...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #613,
I confess, I confess! Have mercy on my entry in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #613 for April 23, 2018. The drawing is by Pia Guerra."It's called good cop, bad clown."I'm pleading the Fifth on...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for March/April 2018
It's time to dig up my entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for March/April 2018. Moment is a magazine of Jewish news and culture. Multiple entries are permitted in this contest. The drawing...
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License Plate for a Microsurgeon?
Up close and personal:"MINIMD"New York State license plateQuick Links to the Attempted Bloggery ArchivesLicense PlatesDoctorsAttempted Bloggery's Minimalist IndexAttempted Bloggery supports net...
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E. Simms Campbell: That Awful Moment of Truth
In this full page cartoon by E. Simms Campbell, our subject, quite a substantial figure himself, here faces a triple threat, a rival with no fewer than three names followed by three formidable...
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E. Simms Campbell: Blondes or Redheads?
Cutie Quips were the Sunday color pages of E. Simms Campbell's syndicated newspaper panel cartoon Cuties."It's a quiz show. They want to know which has the worst temper, blondes or redheads. You...
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E. Simms Campbell: Paparazzi on the French Line
The violation of a young starlet's privacy is the subject of a full-page Esquire magazine color cartoon by E. Simms Campbell that appeared in 1938. A ship's cabin door has been pushed open to reveal...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #614
You can tap your feet to my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #614 for April 30, 2018. The drawing is by Julia Suits."What do you mean you haven't practiced?"These captions were just a...
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Mischa Richter's Capitalist Pigs
Does it make sense that cartoonist Mischa Richter, whose family fled the Russian Revolution for the United States, would work as art editor for the New Masses, a leading American Marxist magazine? Was...
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Mischa Richter: Daladier Salutes
My good friends, for the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.—Neville ChamberlainSeptember 30,...
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Mischa Richter: The Jewish District
A 1933 ink and wash drawing by Mischa Richter depicts New York's "Jewish District," clearly the Lower East Side. Still an art student, Richter is here being influenced by the Ashcan School. At this...
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