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Walt Disney Studios: "Ye Olden Days" Animation Drawing
A vintage animation drawing shows wandering minstrel Mickey Mouse, having won the hand of Princess Minnie, being carried aloft on his donkey at the victorious conclusion of Walt Disney's "Ye Olden...
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Art Young: Portrait of Alexander Woollcott
Art Young's portrait of celebrated New Yorker writer Alexander Woollcott shows the critic and radio personality seated informally in his bathrobe. Woollcott is portrayed with his morning cup of coffee...
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Harry Bliss: Inspired by Charles Addams
Last week we saw how Harry Bliss's cover art for The New Yorker issue of December 28, 2020 was directly based on a cartoon by Charles Addams that ran in the magazine back on December 27, 1952. Bliss...
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Harry Bliss: Inspired by James Thurber
Harry Bliss's syndicated panel cartoon Bliss for December 11, 2017 seems to be inspired by a classic New Yorker gag by James Thurber."That's my first wife up there, and this is the present Mrs....
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A Wealth of Pigeons Signed by Harry Bliss and Steve Martin
A Wealth of Pigeons by Harry Bliss and Steve Martin is a cartoon collection published on November 17 that grew out of the collaboration between the cartoonist and the comedian in the pages of The New...
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Kenneth Mahood and Ronald Searle: Letter Drop
Kenneth Mahood, who passed away on December 30 at the age of 90, published a great many cartoons in his lifetime and I've been looking at a small number of them in remembrance. His cover for the Punch...
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #108
It's time to line up for the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #108, the first two-week contest in the history of Cartoon Collections. The unsigned drawing is by Benjamin Schwartz. My three captions...
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Thomas Nast: "Boss" Tweed, the "Brains" of Tammany Hall
Thomas Nast, spent his career attacking "Boss" Tweed and the corrupt Democratic politicians of New York's Tammany Hall. One of his more famous images is from Harper's Weekly and shows "The 'Brains'...
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License Plate for Bruce Wayne's: Robocar?
Seen on the street in Gotham City:"BOTMOBIL"New York State License Plate03497
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Open House for Butterflies Signed by Maurice Sendak
Here's my copy of Open House for Butterflies (1960, reissued 2001) by Ruth Krauss, signed by illustrator Maurice Sendak. I probably obtained it around the time it was reissued, but, alas, I was not...
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Ailene Fields: Frog Prince
On July 23, while walking past Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, I couldn't resist photographing Frog Prince, a bronze by Ailene Fields. Her "Once Upon a Time" Wood Fairy sculpture can be glimpsed in the...
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Blog Post No. 3500: William Steig's "What Is Art?"
Dick Buchanan, standard-bearer of the Cartoon Clip Files, writes about an original art acquisition:I bought this piece on eBay many years ago. I won it with just $5 over second place bidder. Whew! It...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #738
Below is my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #739 for January 11, 2021. The drawing is by Carolita Johnson."Now you show him how to act like a dog."03501
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Gahan Wilson: Joystick
An original illustration by Gahan Wilson, c. 1985, has been sold on eBay for $2,250. An executive, presumably, is shown directing the actions of an employee via a joystick controller with a cable....
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The Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #109
I found my inner child for the Cartoon Collections Caption Contest #109. The drawing is by Robert Leighton. My three captions are posted below but the contest ended prematurely and a new contest was...
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John Held, Jr.: My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions
In 1927, amidst the backdrop of Prohibition and its discontents, Frank Shaycollected My Pious Friends and Drunken Companions. The book is "magnificently illuminated" by the cartoonist John Held, Jr.,...
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Singing Along with John Held, Jr.
Late in 2017 on eBay, six as yet unsold woodblock prints by John Held, Jr., caught my eye. And my ear.Note: I've always wondered how many of these woodblock prints Held pulled or, to put it another...
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Todd Stuart: Summit of Manhattan
I photographed Todd Stuart'sSummit of Manhattan (2018) while walking through town on July 23.Summit of ManhattanTodd StuartBe-tween?03506
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Vaughn Bodé: Real Time Truth
Steven D. Brewer reports purchasing a pencil rough to Vaughn Bodé's"Real Time Truth" at the Words & Pictures Museum of Fine Sequential Art back around 1999. That would be close to the time the...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #740
Please handle with care my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #740 for January 18, 2021. The drawing is by Joe Dator."So much for our hopes of cashing in on the insurance."These captions...
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