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The Beautiful One's Copy of Roses and Buckshot by James Montgomery Flagg
A Friend of the Blog writes to inform us of a spectacular copy of Roses and Buckshot, the autobiography of American illustrator James Montgomery Flagg published in 1946. It is inscribed to a woman he...
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Adrian Tomine's 32 Stories Limited Edition
I have mentioned in the past my love of limited editions and my antipathy toward bookplates. But what if the limitation of a book is designated by a bookplate rather than by a traditional printed...
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George Booth Greeting Cards by the Dozen
Twelve unused, vintage greeting cards by New Yorker cartoonist George Booth were sold on eBay in May. As a group, they celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, love, friendship, and getting older. Just take...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #718
Come take a ride with my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #718 for July 27, 2020. The drawing is by Michael Maslin."I thought today we'd just loaf around."These captions didn't have...
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License Plate for a Doga Teacher?
I kid you not."YOGA DOG"Virginia License PlateNote: Attempted Bloggery appreciates finding amusement on and off the road. Readers are invited to safely contribute clever license plates to the old...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #85
The file name for the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #85 cartoon reads Death Threats Department, not that that really helps with the captioning. My entries are shown below. The drawing is by...
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Twin Birthday Wishes from Patrick McDonnell
In 2003, Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell presented twin birthday wishes to Hannah and Rachel. Earl and Mooch preside over the festivities from under the covers."Happy Shbirthday, Hannah!"Patrick...
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Siné: Scatty and Car...Toons
It seems Tom Bloom went into his library and came out with scans of the front and back covers of two vintage works by Siné (Maurice Sinet [1928-2016]). Scatty (1958) and Car...Toons (1964) are...
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A VIP Library
Virgil Partch (1916-1984), better known as VIP, published numerous cartoon collections and illustrated books from the 1940s to the 1970s. Illustrator and collagist Stephen Kroninger has a great many of...
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Ronald Searle: Interests
A man and a women are dancing together in an unseen ballroom, barely moving actually, while the man's attention is focused instead on the day's newspaper. His partner's face is hidden from us. Ronald...
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Patrick McDonnell: A Mutts Dinner Note
Stephen Kroninger has found a Mutts Fold & Mail stationery note from Earl, the lead dog in the comic strip. One suspects Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell may have helped, at least with the...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for Summer 2020
Darwin's Theory of Evolution meets the world of Jewish humor in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for Summer 2020. I submitted three entries, but I would probably have been fine with just the second...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #86
"Clown Boss" is the filename of the image for Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #86. The drawing is by Kaamran Hafeez."Lately you haven't been laughing.""Waffles, Bobo, Zing, Banjo, Sudsy, Juju,...
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Marc Luers's Sketch of Charlie Brown by Charles M. Schulz
The Peanuts comic strip was in its fourth year in 1954 when Charles M. Schulz made an appearance at the Walter Hines Page Elementary School in South Minneapolis, which his daughter attended. He offered...
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Cape Cod 2020
We arrived at Cape Cod on Sunday, July 5. The following day, Massachusetts went into Phase 3 of Reopening and we were able to dine inside at some restaurants. We were based in Chatham for the week. We...
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Patrick McDonnell: Original Mutts Comic Strip Art
How often does one see original Mutts comic strip art by Patrick McDonnell? For me this is a first.The original published strip of May 8, 2004 was dedicated by McDonnell to the family of Stephen...
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Walt Kelly's Pogo: J. Edgar Hoover, Bulldog
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was investigating Pogo cartoonist Walt Kelly around the time Kelly depicted him as a bulldog in this Sunday strip from 1969. The unnamed bulldog is from the FYI and he's...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #719—Almost
It's open house for my non-entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #719 dated August 10, 2020. I did not get around to entering what I wrote. The drawing is by Jeremy Nguyen."The seller lost...
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Sight Unseen: Virginia's Copy of The Art in Cartooning
Should one pay good money for a rare book, sight unseen? Well, it depends. If the book is a signed copy of The Art in Cartooning (1975) with six original drawings by the likes of Marvin Tannenberg,...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #87
Having recently run a few nearly indecipherable caption contests, Cartoon Collections relented somewhat on this one and explained for all to see that contest #87 features "aliens dining out." To be...
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