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Mischa Richter: Will Hays
Will H. Hays, the first chairman of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, is the subject of Mischa Richter's cover for the New Masses of August 16, 1938. The illustration was...
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Mischa Richter: Taking No Prisoners
Mischa Richter's New Yorker cartoon of June 12, 1989 has no shading at all and is therefore a wonderful example of just how good his pen and ink technique was. The business man in his well-tailored...
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Today's Walk: Colors of Spring
Today's walk revealed more colors of spring and a cat in an unexpected place.02536
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Mischa Richter: Decision Revision?
Mischa Richter's newspaper panel cartoon Strictly Richter was syndicated by King Features from 1945-1963 and then by Valen Associates into 1964. An original panel from the final year with King Features...
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License Plate for Mame?
This license plate was spotted on yesterday's walk:"AUNT1E"New Jersey license plateQuick Links to the Attempted Bloggery ArchivesLicense PlatesAttempted Bloggery's Relativistic Index02538
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #615
Reel in my entry in TheNew Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #615 for May 7, 2018. The drawing is by Drew Dernavich."Son, did you leave the bait in our dining room again?"I had to cut bait on these...
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Mischa Richter's Dinner Plate Nameplate
Mischa Richter's original New Yorker cartoon art from the issue of August 22, 1988 has a straightforward enough concept. The overall composition of the gag has not been left to chance. One only has to...
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Mischa Richter: Interactive Footwear
Mischa Richter's cartoon for the New Yorker issue of February 28, 1994 provides a good example of the use of foreshortening, the technique of rendering various objects—such as body parts—in perspective...
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Mischa Richter: The Verdict
Mischa Richter'sNew Yorker cartoon of July 12, 1993 should be understood in the context of the Judicial Conference's cameras in the courtroom pilot program which was underway from 1991 to 1993. The...
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Today's Walk: A Woodpecker Visits
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Mischa Richter: Empty-Headed?
A cartoon set at a crowded party and published in the New Yorker of September 1, 1986 might seem at least as relevant today as it was in the midst of the Reagan era. What's old is new again no? But do...
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E. Simms Campbell: In the Harem Maternity Ward
As we prepare for tomorrow's celebration of Mother's Day, let's first take a look back at one depiction of new mothers in the popular "Harem Girls" series by cartoonist E. Simms Campbell. This gag was...
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Mort Walker: A Touching Mother's Day Card
Today, the late Mort Walker is best remembered for his Beetle Bailey comic strip which began publication in 1950. In 1952, he was still actively creating gag cartoons for Collier's, which was to cease...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #616
Gather round the water cooler for my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #616 for May 14, 2018. The drawing is by P. C. Vey."First do me a favor and check whereNed has his hand."These...
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The Rye Arts Center Caption Contest
I am quite at home in the world of the arts and even in the world of the sciences, but in the world of politics I cannot be said to tread lightly. Now recall if you will that today nearly every arts...
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Mischa Richter: Elevator Travel
No caption is needed for Mischa Richter's gag cartoon of a well-traveled elevator rider that appeared in the December 1, 1986 issue of the New Yorker. The original art was sold two weeks ago on eBay...
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So this is Newark!—Leo Cullum and John Jonik Get Around
Luggage labels are those old-time status symbols that show where we've traveled and to what sort of sophistication we aspire. A greeting card by cartoonist Leo Cullum pokes fun at travelers'...
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Mischa Richter: Lecturing Tojo
Mischa Richter's political cartoon of Hitler lecturing Tojo over the progress of the Sino-Japanese War may be dated to c. 1939-1940, as conjectured fairly convincingly by the recent eBay seller of this...
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Mischa Richter: The Ugly Aristocracy
The New Masses was ever eager to deflate the pretensions of aristocracy. On the other hand, the Marxist publication was presumably silent on the killings and other abuses committed by Joseph Stalin. A...
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MoCCA Fest 2018
This past April 7th I eagerly returned to Metropolitan West for MoCCA Fest 2018, the annual independent comics festival conceived by the defunct Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art and now under the...
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