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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #692
Try on for size my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #692. The date is January 6, 2020. The drawing is by Mort Gerberg."I love it! Let me treat you to dinner."These captions needed to be...
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Ronald Searle: The Flight
In 1976 Ronald Searle managed to get a strong environmental image onto the cover of the New Yorker, one of the earliest if not the very first to appear there. Despite its humor, it raises some serious...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #57
Pull up a couch and join the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #57. The drawing is by John Klossner.""I'm changing my policy on walk-ins.""Freud never could scale up.""I gather there were no...
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Ronald Searle: I Am Lonely
These past few blog posts could convey the false impression that it was commonplace at one time for an artist to take his published New Yorker cartoons (in the case of Lee Lorenz) or covers (in the...
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Ronald Searle: Oh Les Beaux Jours
We have seen how Ronald Searle created original lithographs from barely a handful of his published New Yorker covers. There is a curious counterexample of him creating one New Yorker cover based upon...
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Arnie Levin and Ronald Searle: The Owl and the Pussycat and The New Yorker
Edward LearThe Owl and the...
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Danny Shanahan: A New Yorker Promotional Magnet
I have been subscribing to the New Yorker since before I set foot in high school, so I don't often receive mailings targeted at new subscribers. A colleague of mine who does receive such mailings,...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #693
Welcome to the caption lab. Here you can see my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #693 for January 13, 2020. The drawing is by Mark Thompson."No way he's getting his name on the...
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My Copy of Patricia Marx and Roz Chast's Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So...
I found my doubly-signed copy of Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?: A Mother's Suggestions (2019) by Patricia Marx and Roz Chast strictly by chance at Strand Bookstore in New York....
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #58
In the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #58, a well-dressed woman is accosted by a "weirdo," as he's referred to in the JPEG file name. Three entries are allowed; mine are below. I found the...
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Lee Lorenz: The Temptation of St. Anthony
The earliest lithograph I am aware of by Lee Lorenz, cartoonist and former art editor of the New Yorker, is The Temptation of St. Anthony dating from 1981. Lorenz, aside from his skills as a...
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Lee Lorenz: Ecce Femina
Lee Lorenz's color lithograph Ecce Femina (the title is a play on the Latin Ecce Homo, "behold the man," from the Gospel of John) dates from 1982 and was published in an edition of 80. The woman at the...
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Dotsy and Eddie's Copy of Cat-Calls by Peggy Bacon
A rare copy of Cat-Calls (1935) by Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) seems just the thing to contemplate during the flu season. The book bears a full-page original drawing of a child's sickbed complete with...
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Alice and John McClelland's Copy of Charles Saxon's "Honesty is One of the...
In 1984 artist Alice McClelland (1921-2009) and her husband illustrator John H. McClelland (1919-2016) were given a personalized copy of New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon's new collection "Honesty is...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #694
Sing, Muse, of my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #694 for January 20, 2020. The drawing is by P. C. Vey. "When he wasn't at the office He kept all the sidewalk clear....
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Robin and Al's Copy of Art Linkletter's Kids Sure Rite Funny!
Art Linkletter (1912-2010) was a television personality and the compiler of the well-known Kids Say the Darndest Things! (1957). He was also the author-editor of other such compilations, including Kids...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #59
Three angels up in heaven are seen smoking and drinking in the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #59. My three entries—and a couple more—are below.The drawing is by Drew Panckeri."Here comes Mr. High...
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Ronald Searle: Nobody Loves Me
Ronald Searle's 1974 lithograph Nobody Loves Me is surely one of his signature lithographic images. It depicts a lonely and isolated cat high up on a precarious perch. It was first collected in More...
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Ronald Searle: Memory Lane and Nobody Wants Me
Two 1977 lithographs by Ronald Searle serve as meditations on love and loneliness. Using cats to express human emotion, Memory Lane presents an old-fashioned vision of impossibly romantic love. The...
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Michael Knudsen's Paper Napkin Drawing by Saul Steinberg
Today David from Manhattan contributes images of a paper restaurant napkin drawn upon by none other than Saul Steinberg (1914-1999). David has spent some considerable time and effort researching this...
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