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Peter Arno: Party Line Writers
A Peter Arno illustration from the 1930s depicts writers who toil in support of the policies of the two major political parties. Their work is viewed in a positive light as they build up their...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #731
It's time to analyze my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #731 for November 2, 2020. The drawing is by Suerynn Lee."Digging deeper is supposed to be a metaphor."03430
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Peter Steiner Goes to the Polls
Five years ago, Peter Steiner's original New Yorker cartoon from the issue of November 8, 1993 was sold on eBay. The framed artwork was purchased with the Buy It Now feature. The composition has a...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #99
How did I spend election night, you ask? I was writing my entries, of course, for the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #99, a tricky one, or so I thought. I mean, how funny can one be on election...
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Threesome: Allen's Copy of The Wild, Wild Women by Virgil Partch
Claude Haber writes with a photograph of a personalized copy of The Wild, Wild Women (1952) by Virgil Partch, a.k.a. Vip. The book is dedicated to a fan named Allen. It features an original gag cartoon...
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Cats and Dogs: P. & E. Fairbanks's Copy of Vip on Love... Relations in...
Which are in favor, dogs or cats? P. and E. Fairbanks's Copy of Vip on Love...: Relations in Strange Locations (1978) is personalized by Virgil Partch, the Vip of the title, with a hand-drawn answer....
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Groucho Marx's Copy of "The Butter and Egg Man" by George S. Kaufman
"Groucho Marx is the only actor I ever allowed to ad-lib in a show I wrote. That was because I couldn't stop him."—George S. Kaufman on the liner notes of "An Evening With Groucho" (1972)Frank...
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Bob Eckstein: A Caption Contest for Weekly Humorist
Weekly Humorist is hosting a one-off cartoon caption contest on its Instagram page. The rules are few and the duration is not clear, but who follows the rules in a caption contest anyway? The cartoon...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #732
Please don't take me to court over my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #732 for November 9, 2020. The drawing is by P. C. Vey."If it please the court, may I take the defendant...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for September/October 2020
I submitted no fewer than fifteen entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for September/October 2020. I'd like to think that's one for every floor in the building with the elevator drawn by...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #100
Maybe I've got the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #100 all locked up. Maybe not. One hundred contests already? My captions are below. The drawing is by Brooke Bourgeois."He was caught with how...
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Peter Arno: Hard Times for One and All
A Depression-era cartoon original by Peter Arno from the pages of the New York Herald Tribune is listed on the website of Adam Baumgold Fine Art. The caption shows Arno's penchant for dialect and...
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Virgil Partch: "Guess Who!"
Claude Haber writes with a photo of an original drawing by Virgil Partch, or Vip. He believes it was drawn for someone in the movie industry."Guess who!"Virgil PartchPhoto by Clause HaberIt is an...
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The New Yorker Bound: The 1980s
A decade's worth of bound volumes of The New Yorker, fifty-four in number, have been withdrawn from the library of the California Institute of Technology. Its loss is now someone else's gain. The price...
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Stephen and Aviva's Copy of Maurice Sendak's What Can You Do With a Shoe?
Stephen Kroninger writes with images of his family copy of Beatrice Shenk de Regniers'sWhat Can You Do With a Shoe? The book, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, was published in 1955 and was reissued in...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #733
I hope you appreciate the sheer—or is it shear?—audacity of my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #733 for November 16, 2020. The drawing is by Marisa Acocela."Apparently they'd prefer a...
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June's Copy of The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker was published in 2004. June is a psychotherapist whose copy of the book was signed by four New Yorker cartoonists—Danny Shanahan, Michael Maslin, Liza Donnelly,...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #101
I've got nothing to say about the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #101 that my dummy can't say for me. My captions are below. The drawing is by Robert Leighton."I feel you're not cut out for this...
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Ronald Searle: Mr. Lemon Hart Says: "How to Make Rum Drinks Like a Pro..."
In the 1950s or thereabouts, importer Julius Wile Sons & Co. produced an eight-page booklet to introduce an American audience to Lemon Hart rum, the best selling rum in England. The short recipe...
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Ronald Searle: Lemon Hart Rum Tandem Bicycle Poster
Mr. Lemon Hart and Mr. Lamb take their respective dark rums for a ride on a tandem bicycle in an advertising poster by Ronald Searle. Here the campaign was, like the bicycle, built for two. It ran...
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