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Mayor John Lindsay's Copy of One Man's Fancy by Charles Saxon
One might think that well-known people—politicians, artists, writers, actors, athletes, celebrities—would recognize that their personal libraries have some market value. A book demonstrably associated...
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Phil's Copy of Big George by Virgil Partch
It's a little hard to make out from the suboptimal eBay photos, but Virgil Partch, also known by his signature VIP, dedicated a copy of Big George, his 1962 collection of newspaper panel cartoons, to...
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Steve's Copy of The Art in Cartooning
Scott Burns writes:Per your request, here’s another signed copy of The Art in Cartooning from my personal collection. This copy is inscribed by all three editors (Mort Gerberg, Edwin Fisher, Ron Wolin)...
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Jack Ziegler's Cow: An Epilogue
In yesterday's post, or rather in 1976, cartoonist Jack Ziegler drew a misshapen cow in a copy of The Art in Cartooning (1975) and then a couple of other first-rate New Yorker cartoonists had some...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #720
Raise a glass to my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #720 dated August 17, 2020. The weighty drawing is by Benjamin Schwartz."Have a drink. We pass this way but once."These captions...
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Maggie of the Suicide Fleet: Margaret Emerson's Copy from Herb Roth
Maggie of the Suicide Fleet (1930) is the story of Maggie, the "pleasure yacht" of "Bromo-Seltzer King" Isaac Emerson, named for his wife Margaret, the recipient of this unique volume. The yacht was...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #88
"This week’s cartoon of a bear outside a couple’s tent comes from Ben Schwartz." Now where's the fun in that? Cartoon Collections, which lately has been deliberately courting caption contestant...
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Ronald Searle: An Autographed Cartoon from Down with Skool!
Down with Skool!: A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and Their Parents was first published in 1953. Geoffrey Willans had originally created Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St. Custard's, in the...
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Sir William Alexander Fitzwilliam Barrington's Copy of The Journal of Edwin Carp
Edwin Carp was a fictitious personality, a fish impersonator and eccentric poet played on radio by British character actor Richard Haydn. Haydn "edited"The Journal of Edwin Carp (1954), his only book,...
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John Colquhoun's Copy of The Art in Cartooning
Cartoonist and illustrator John Colquhoun has come through for us with photographs of his own copy of The Art in Cartooning (1975).The Closed MindCharles SaxonThe Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five Years...
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Patrick McDonnell: Three Mutts Souvenirs
Stephen Kroninger sends along three drawings by Mutts cartoonist Patrick McDonnell. The souvenir sketches of Earl (the dog) and Mooch (the cat) were created for Stephen's twin daughters when they were...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #721
Raise a glass to my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #721 dated August 24, 2020. The tall tale is drawn by P. C. Vey."But I HAVE been social distancing."These captions weren't Grimm...
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There Are Ladies Present by Helen E. Hokinson
There Are Ladies Present (1952) collects cartoons by Helen E. Hokinson (1893-1949) all of which were initially published in The New Yorker between 1927 and 1949, the year she died in a plane crash. The...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #89
"This week’s cartoon of two people reading books comes from Jeremy Nguyen." Thank you, Cartoon Collections, for that succinct and helpful explanation of this cartoon. Meanwhile the image file bears an...
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Aunt Lydia's Copy of The Hokinson Festival
In 1956, seven years after she perished in a plane crash, Helen E. Hokinson's final cartoon collection was published. The Hokinson Festival comprises work from four previous collections, including more...
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James Reid Parker's Copy of My Best Girls by Helen E. Hokinson
When Helen E. Hokinson's cartoon collection My Best Girls was published in 1941, she and gagwriter James Reid Parker had been formally collaborating for ten years. Parker wrote the memorable captions...
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Helen E. Hokinson: Portrait of Hendrik Willem van Loon
Hendrik Willem Van Loon was a bestselling author who illustrated his own popular histories, most notably The Story of Mankind in 1921. He was the subject of not one but two New Yorker Profiles, in 1926...
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Helen E. Hokinson: Portrait of Marion Ellet
Helen E. Hokinson's portrait of journalist Marion Ellet is intriguing. The ink and wash drawing is unsigned and undated, so our understanding of it relies entirely on Ellet's sworn affidavit of 1969,...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #722
Get in tune for my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #722 for the date August 31, 2020. The drawing is by Teresa Burns Parkhurst."You're right. It IS too big for the house."These captions...
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Drawing Life with George Booth Kickstarter Reward, Continued
In April of 2019 I became a supporter of the Kickstarter project to fund Drawing Life with George Booth. The documentary film, still in production, is the work of Nathan Fitch with animation by...
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