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Barbara Shermund: Diving for Greenbacks?
In decades past, it was a common practice for well-off cruise ship passengers to toss coins overboard at natives who would dive for them. This was a popular practice in the West Indies and elsewhere in...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #3
It's the third installment of the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest and unlimited entries are now permitted. The drawing is by Drew Dernavich. My unlimited entries are below."Just call...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #643
In this corner, my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #643 for December 17, 2018. The drawing is by Mort Gerberg."Float like a butterfly, sting like a B-flat."I'm afraid these captions...
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Pictorial Review: Barbara Shermund and Julian de Miskey
Dick Buchanan has dipped into his Cartoon Clip Files and sent along three full color scans from Pictorial Revue. There are two covers, one from 1948 by Barbara Shermund and the other from 1949 by...
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Signed Poster of Ralph Steadman's Little Match Girl
In 1986, Ralph Steadman illustrated The Flying Trunk and Other Stories from Andersen by Naomi Lewis. A poster of "The Little Match Girl" published to support the Save the Children Fund was signed by...
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Howard Baer: What Santa Needs to Know
In the January 1941 issue of Esquire, cartoonist Howard Baer reminds us not to keep important information from Santa Claus. Many Esquire gags with department store Santas involve conversations that go...
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Laurent de Brunhoff: Babar's Ski Jump
Winter begins today here in the Northern Hemisphere. Let'sĀ celebrate with an original illustration of a favorite winter sport from a 1973 Babar book by Laurent de Brunhoff. Just don't try this at...
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A Clare Briggs Drawing for Flu Season
It is now officially flu season in the State of New York. Chances are the drawing accompanying a 1915 autograph letter by Clare Briggs to a fan depicts nothing more serious than the common cold, but...
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E. Simms Campbell: Santa's Strategy
A mother stops to apply lipstick and the toy store Santa Claus takes notice. Even the children realize Santa's up to something in this 1937 Esquire cartoon by E. Simms Campbell."āand what is your phone...
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Ronald Searle: Commercial Christmas
Many of Ronald Searle's Christmas illustrations captured a special luminous joy, but he could also be critical of the holiday's commercialism. Three unpublished illustrations for a circa 1960 Holiday...
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Arthur Rackham: The Sleeping Beauty with a Drawing of Merlin
Arthur Rackham's illustrations for The Sleeping Beauty (1920) by C. S. Evans are mostly executed in silhouette, but a souvenir drawing of the character Merlin dated Christmas 1920 and laid into a first...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for November/December 2018
Here's a tasting menu of my entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for November/December 2018. Moment, of course,Ā is a magazine which covers topics of Jewish interest and many of their caption...
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eBay 101: Falling Upon a New Yorker Cartoon?
An eBay seller has recently listed a wash drawing with the intriguing title "Original NEW YORKER Cartoon Art 1930s." The initial Buy It Now price was a robust $2,000, albeit with a Make Offer option....
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eBay 101: New Yorker Cartoon Doggerel
Aside from the drawing, above, discussed in yesterday's post, a second illustration currently offered by eBay seller toys24-7 is listed as "Original NEW YORKER Cartoon 1939 GYPSY & ELEANOR NEW...
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eBay 101: Naming Names
The title of an eBay listing this past month seems pretty straightforward:Ā "John Ruge Listed Artist 1940's WWII WPA Era Cartoon Illustration Pepsi Cola #1." That #1 indicates this is one of four eBay...
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Perry Barlow: Sizing Up the New Year
It is New Year's Eve eighty years ago in the pages of Collier's.Perry Barlow'sĀ older couple has not quite gotten into the spirit of the festivities. Note how deftly Barlow sets the scene and contrasts...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #644
Here is my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #644 for the double issue of December 24 and 31, 2018. The drawing is by Bob Eckstein."Now why would you need solar?"These captions were...
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Rick Parker: Harold Lloyd
Time's almost up! As we count down the hours and minutes to the the start of 2019, I'd like for us momentarily to put aside our contemporary watches and smart phones and to recall instead the iconic...
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Ted Key: The Whoopee Party
It is the morning of New Year's Day eighty years ago as seen in the pages of Collier's. Cartoonist Ted Key's young master has returned home from a night on the town. His gentleman's gentleman, it would...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #4
Here's the fourth installment of the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest. As with the previous installment, there is no longer any limit to the number of submissions. The Cartoon Collections contest...
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