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Charles Addams: Best Wishes to the Browns of Arizona
Arizona became a territory of the United States on February 24, 1863, and entered the Union on February 12, 1912, as the 48th state. The state bird is the cactus wren and the state flower is the...
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Charles Addams: A Letter to Mr. Gadby
Charles Addams's handwritten letter to one Mr. Gadby is written on New Yorker stationery and dated January 31, 1985, when the celebrated cartoonist was 83. He reflects, "I had always, or since I was a...
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The Cartoonstock Caption Contest #123
After last week's redo, it's time for the lowdown on Cartoonstock Caption Contest #123. My three entries are shown below. The drawing is by Mick Stevens."These aren't reduced enough.""I won't be...
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Jeanine's Copy of Tout se complique by Jean-Jacques Sempé
Everything is complicated, or Tout se complique, as cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé titled his 1962 book. One Jeanine's former copy of the 1972 softcover edition is currently available from bookseller...
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Jeanine's Copy of Vacances by Jean-Jacques Sempé
That same Jeanine whose book we saw in yesterday's post also owned a personalized copy of cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé's Vacances [Vacation, 1990], judging from the fact that both Sempé books became...
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Janine's Copy of Bonjour Bonsoir by Jean-Jacques Sempé
We have now seen a few similar souvenir drawings which include an exaggeratedly long-stemmed flower penned by cartoonist Jean-Jacques Sempé. This relatively simple device allows him to present fans...
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My Copy of Taking Liberties by Felipe Galindo
Just published on April 9, Taking Liberties is cartoonist Felipe Galindo's—or Feggo's—set of variations on the subject of the Statue of Liberty. The book, almost entirely in color, is in part a series...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #753
All ashore for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #753 from the double issue of April 26 and May 3, 2021. Captain Ahab and Moby-Dick are both grocery shopping in a supermarket. My water-logged...
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James Thurber First Editions
A group of five first editions by James Thurber was sold at auction Sunday for $250 plus buyer's premium. It seems to be a very good price, as it includes the sheet music to "The Cat and the Riddle,"...
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The Cartoonstock Caption Contest #124
I did not participate in Cartoonstock Caption Contest #124. I wrote four entries, shown below, but but failed to enter any of them by the deadline. Oh, well. The drawing is by E. S. Glenn.Or is it?"I...
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David's Copy of The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker
An eBay seller named David reports working at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco when the New Yorker's then-cartoon editor Bob Mankoff and four other New Yorker cartoonists came to give a...
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Paul Conrad: A Swipe at The New Yorker
On December 22, 1984, Bernhard Hugo Goetz shot and wounded four black teenagers on a New York City subway train, claiming they were attempting to rob him. The shooting made national news and Goetz...
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Jean-Michel Folon: Mail Art
A postcard illustrated in ink and watercolor by Jean-Michel Folon was sent from France via air mail in 1976 to Evelyn Farland of Poster Originals, Limited. Her New York City gallery sold original art...
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Kathleen's Copy of Maus II by Art Spiegelman
Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began was published in 1991, completing the graphic novel. In the book, Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are cats and Poles are pigs. Kathleen's copy of the book...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #754
Sound the alarm for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #754 from the issue of May 10, 2021. The drawing is by Drew Dernavich."What do you say we take the stairs?"These captions couldn't pass the...
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Twin Inscriptions in Art Spiegelman's Maus
Stephen Kroninger writes with photos of a first edition of Maus (1986) personalized for his twin daughters in 2019 by the graphic novel's author Art Spiegelman. Spiegelman has added a drawing of Artie,...
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The CartoonStock Caption Contest #125
I tried not to lose my head over the CartoonStock Caption Contest #125. I wrote four entries this week and submitted three, below. The drawing is by Robert Leighton."It beats what became of the four...
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Little Lit: The Series, Signed
Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, and Françoise Mouly,The New Yorker's art editor, are the husband-and-wife editors of Little Lit, three volumes published in the early 2000s which bring together a number...
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Mischa Richter's Copy of a George Grosz Monograph
In 1927, Marcel Ray published George Grosz, a monograph about the artist in French from the series Peintres et Sculpteurs. Scott Burns of Armadillo & Dicker Books writes:I have a copy of a 1927...
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George Grosz: Postcard of an Artist Colony
Today illustrator Stephen Kroninger shares a postcard sent by George Grosz, then summering in Cape Cod, to his friend, the art critic Thomas Craven. The postcard, written and postmarked in Truro on...
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