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Ten Graphite Pencils by Roz Chast
In 2018 New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast turned her formidable skills to the marketing of…pencils. Ten Graphite Pencils is a package of ten identical gray pencils distinguished only by humorously...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #73
Don't let the plausible captions fool you: I did not enter the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #73. The drawing is by John Klossner."We just don't believe in you.""You could use some glitter.""I'm...
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Ronald Searle: Tennis for the Times
Ronald Searle's mid-1980s advertising campaign for the New York Times was published in color on full pages in the Times Magazine section.Ads ran with the tag line "There's no Times like the present."...
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A Love Letter from Ronald Searle
David from Manhattan writes:Back in 2016 someone was selling love letters from Ronald Searle to artist and print maker Ruth Cyril. One appealed to me—not just the small bird drawing, but also the...
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Don Tobin: Special Mother's Day Dinner
Dick Buchanan delves back seventy-two years in his Cartoon Clip Files to bring us a postwar Mother's Day gag by cartoonist Don Tobin. The baby boom began in 1946, just two years before the Saturday...
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Claude Smith: Free Rein
If you think the postwar popularity of the bikini top went unnoticed by the New Yorker's cartoonists, you probably weren't reading the magazine back then. Original art by cartoonist Claude Smith from...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #709
Get on board with my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #709 for May 11, 2020. The drawing is by P. C. Vey."Lady, does it LOOK like we're going up?"This caption offered an alternative:"For...
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Claude Smith: A Suitor for Miss Hobbs
An example of original 1955 New Yorker cartoon art by Claude Smith shows how some unfortunate framing and matting choices have consequences over time. The art is matted a bit too tightly obscuring some...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #74
A doctor from the Operating Room reports on a case to a houseplant in the surgical waiting area. I should have the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #74 all sewn up. The drawing is by Danny...
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Claude Smith: Quick Loans
Cartoonist Claude Smith, who signed his name simply as Claude, drew many of his multi-panel cartoons on separate sheets of paper. This would have made the drawing and any corrections easier to...
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Claude Smith: Killed New Yorker Art
The title of a current eBay listing says quite a lot: "Claude Smith Original Cartoon For The New Yorker...Accepted-Then Rejected." There's a word for New Yorker cartoons that are purchased by the...
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J. C. Duffy's Dan Rather: Killed New Yorker Art
In 2017 cartoonist J. C. Duffy sold an original cartoon that mentions television journalist Dan Rather. The cartoon was purchased by the New Yorker but was never published. The cartoon was eventually...
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J. C. Duffy: First Person Parrot
Cartoons that play on the idiosyncrasies of language are favorites of mine. Here's an original New Yorker gag by J. C. Duffy published in 2011 and sold on eBay in 2017."Polly want to abandon speaking...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #710
Shh! Don't disturb my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #710 for March 18, 2020. The drawing is by Julia Suits."He does too know we're here."Note: In last week's Caption Contest,...
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J. C. Duffy: "I Never Forget a Face"
J. C. Duffy's original cartoon was published in the New Yorker in 2004 and sold on eBay by the artist just this year. The gag is set at a bar and begins with a common cliché, but then it takes an...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #75
A medication capsule at a cocktail party is the speaker in the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #75. Three entries are permitted; mine are below. The drawing is by Bob Eckstein."But surely you know...
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J. C. Duffy: Repurposing
With his New Yorker cartoon of May 30, 2011, J. C. Duffy once again demonstrates his ability to give an old idea a new and unexpected twist. The original art was sold on eBay in 2017.J. C....
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J. C. Duffy's Henny Youngman Statue
J. C. Duffy's cartoon imagining a statue of comedian Henny Youngman is remarkable enough to have been purchased by the New Yorker and quirky enough to have been killed by it—that is, no longer...
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Peter Arno for Alemite
A vintage 1948 print advertisement for Alemite car lubricant presents a family-oriented pitch. We are told "The Holdens discovered that 80% of all repair bills are not necessary—are the result of...
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Tall, Dark...and Handsome?
In yesterday's post, readers may recall, I got on my high horse and very matter-of-factly stated that the copy in a 1949 Alemite ad by Peter Arno featuring a fortune-teller should read "tall, dark, and...
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