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The CartoonStock Caption Contest #135
With the contest duration currently set at two weeks, I find the CartoonStock Caption Contest #135 really grows on you. My three entries may be seen below. The medically-accurate drawing is by Gahan...
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The New Yorker: Aces! —All Aces!
One of the rarest of all New Yorker books is the 1926 promotional volume Aces! —All Aces! Produced by the business department to encourage advertising in the magazine during its second year of...
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The New Yorker: "Something Different"
"Let's get something different." It is the characteristic tribal cry of the advertiser.Maybe it is."Something Different" was published by The New Yorker's business office in August of 1927 when the...
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License Plate for an On-Call Nurse?
This car was seen on the road moving at a healthy clip."RNONTHGO"New York State license plate03711
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #766
I had to stay up late with The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #766 from the issue of August 9, 2021. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Mick Stevens."I think my Ambien might work better...
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The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975: Signed by Six
The New Yorker Album of Drawings 1925-1975 remains one of the best introductions one can find to the history of New Yorker cartoons. In the past, four copies signed by multiple cartoonists have...
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Little Lit: "It Was a Dark and Silly Night" Signed by Art Spiegelman and...
Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly are the high-profile co-editors of "It Was a Dark and Silly Night"(2003), one of three Little Lit books presenting entertaining comics tales for young readers. A copy...
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Al Hirschfeld: Danmarks Films-Serie
Tom Bloom writes, sharing a scarce foreign entry in the Al Hirschfeld canon. He describes Danmarks Films-Serie as a movie industry book, published circa 1948. The heart of the book is twenty-five pages...
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Roz Chast: Three Signed Books
Roz Chast surely remains one of the most popular of New Yorker cartoonists. She has high name recognition and a legion of dedicated fans. Yet a recent trend on eBay has been for signed, used books of...
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Roz Chast: Three More Signed Books
Roz Chast's books always seem to be extremely popular, so it is a bit of a mystery why signed copies of some of them have been selling in the ten-dollar range of late on eBay. In a sale posted on...
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What I Hate: From A to Z with a Bookplate Signed by Roz Chast
A book containing a signed bookplate isn't quite the same thing as a signed book, is it? Whatever the answer, this 2011 first edition of What I Hate: From A to Z by Roz Chast with a signed bookplate...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #767
I couldn't quite get a grip on The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #767 from the issue of August 16, 2021. My caption is shown below, although I neglected to enter it. The cartoon is by Pia Guerra...
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Roz Chast: Monoprint of The Four Elements
Roz Chast's cartoon Nature Girl and the Four Elements was published in The New Yorker in 1985.Nature Girl and the Four ElementsRoz ChastThe New Yorker, February 18, 1985, page 38The cartoon was redrawn...
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The CartoonStock Caption Contest #136
In 2005, a cartoon by Jason Patterson set in a tailor's shop appeared in The New Yorker.Two weeks ago, for no apparent reason, the cartoon was repurposed by CartoonStock into a caption contest. After...
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Lászlo Roth, New Yorker Spot Artist
The history of New Yorker spot drawings is rife with mysteries. Far less is known about the spots than about the cartoons or covers created for the magazine. Some are by familiar names—Otto Soglow,...
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Lászlo Roth: Esquire Cartoons
Yesterday's post about illustrator Lászlo Roth identified him as a New Yorker spot artist. This prompted reader Jeff Nelson to shed some light on another aspect of Roth's career. Jeff sent in three...
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Lászlo Roth: More Esquire Cartoons
This week we have seen a single example of artist Lászlo Roth's work as a New Yorker spot illustrator dating from the 1970s. We have also seen a trio of his color Esquire cartoons published in the...
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Lászlo Roth: Still More Esquire Cartoons
The third and final installment of Lászlo Roth's 1950s color cartoons from Esquire once again shows the artist mixing his media and playing with collage. Roth's approach is fairly uncommon and may have...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #768
I tried to put a little spin on The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #768 corresponding to the issue of August 23, 2021. My caption is shown below. The cartoon is by Will McPhail."Just tell him...
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Maurice Sendak: Studies for R. O. Blechman's Beer Man
Maurice Sendak's sheet of concept sketches depict a German beer man creating and enjoying his product. These drawings of the estimable brewer were done in 1997 for a proposed commercial R. O. Blechman...
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