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Sight Unseen: The Crowd Goes Wild by Michael Maslin
Not every book I buy sight unseen has to be pricey. It's much easier, of course, to take a chance on a lower-end purchase; there's less at stake if a volume should turn out to be less than its seller...
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Gayle and Joe's Copy of Cartoon Marriage by Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin
Liza Donnelly and Michael Maslin'sCartoon Marriage (2009) remains the only book collaboration by a New Yorker cartoonist couple. Doubly-signed copies turn up from time to time. One was sold on eBay...
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Charles M. Schulz: Snoopy on a First Day Cover
What can a cartoonist add to a first day cover? Often not much, but once in a while everything on the envelope comes together synergistically. One of the best of these covers I've seen is an air mail...
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Morrie Turner: A Wee Pals First Day Cover
In 1978, the United States Postal Service issued a souvenir sheet to coincide with the Canadian International Postal Exhibition, or CAPEX. The sheet featured eight stamps depicting wildlife found along...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #763
I worked up quite an appetite over The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #763 from the issue of July 12 & 19, 2021. My caption, shown below, came to me in just a few minutes on the first day of...
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An Alexander Woollcott Signed Cover
There have been many creative attempts to combine postal covers with celebrity autographs. In 1933, decades before first day covers came into their own, collector H. M. Brehm persuaded noted New Yorker...
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The CartoonStock Caption Contest #134
There's no evidence whatsoever that I'm ready for the CartoonStock Caption Contest #134. After two weeks, my several unsubmitted entries may be seen below. The drawing is by David Ostow and Dan...
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James Schucker: Denied Entry at the Stork Club
Originally a speakeasy, New York's exclusive Stork Club offered drinking, dining, and celebrity-watching for its wealthy clientele. A cartoon by illustrator James Schucker shows one potential patron...
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Anne, Paul, and Ian's Copy of A Child's Guide to Freud
Illustrated by Whitney Darrow, Jr.,A Child's Guide to Freud (1963) by Louise Armstrong is a humorous look at psychotherapy. The copy inscribed to Anne, Paul, and Ian for Christmas of 1963 has an...
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Eleanor Hollack's Copy of Sigmund Freud by Ralph Steadman
In the year of the book's publication, illustrator Ralph Steadman personalized a copy of Sigmund Freud (1979), drawing and writing over his printed endpaper painting. The recipient's name isn't...
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Dr. and Mrs. Sulzberger's Copy of Freud's Da Vinci by Mark Podwal, M.D.
Freud's Da Vinci was published by Mark Podwal, M.D., in 1977. The back cover blurb reads, "At last! After 400 years...the 'repressed' drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci!" That's an ambitious subject for an...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #764
It's quite a climb to The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #764 from the issue of July 26, 2021. This time my caption, shown below, came to me on the last day of the contest. The drawing is by P. C....
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Blog Post No. 3700: Peter Arno's Changing Points of VIew
Four years ago, when I surveyed the original Peter Arno artwork that came from the estate of New Yorker cartoonistFrank Modell, I was unable to say much about one of the gag cartoons because it came to...
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Helen E. Hokinson: Atlas China Plates
Four vintage cartoon plates by Helen E. Hokinson from Atlas China appear to be in good used condition. They were sold on eBay for the very low price of $2.50, but with a shipping charge of $12.80.Helen...
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Charles Saxon 9 X for The New York Times
In 1961, a portfolio of nine cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Charles Saxon was given to booksellers as a promotion for the New York Times Book Review. The photos, taken by an eBay seller, don't show...
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Reeling Signed by Pauline Kael
For those who may have never seen a signed copy of her work, here is favorite film critic Pauline Kael's Reeling (1976) autographed by the author. Kael's influential work appeared in The New Yorker...
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Gone, Signed by Renata Adler
"As I write this, The New Yorker is dead."Renata Adler'sGone: The Last Days of The New Yorker (1999) is in no way to be confused with Gigi Mahon'sThe Last Days of The New Yorker (1988), which bears a...
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Signed by James Stevenson: Worse Than Willy!
James Stevenson (1929-2017) was a prolific New Yorker cartoonist, having published some two-thousand cartoons and eighty covers in the magazine. He also wrote and illustrated more than one-hundred...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #765
What's funny about climate change? That's the unspoken challenge of The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #765 from the issue of August 2, 2021. My temperate caption is shown below. The drawing is by...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for Summer 2021
God wearing a Speedo and shades? Momentmagazine's Cartoon Caption Contest for Summer 2021 takes us away to a divine day at the beach. A diminutive angel appears before God, who is sunbathing with a...
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