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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #771
It wasn't at all easy to find my entry for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #771 from the issue dated September 13, 2021. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Drew Dernavich."So these are...
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Seth: Wimbledon Green Signed in 2005 with a Sketch
Canadian cartoonist Seth'sWimbledon Green saw publication in 2005. A copy of the book signed in that year of publication also contains a small original portrait of "the greatest comic book collector in...
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Seth: The G. N. B. Double C Signed in 2011 with a Sketch of Canada Jack
Canada Jack appears in The G. N. B. Double C (2011) as a key nationalistic character in Seth's fanciful alternate history of Canadian comics. Seth drew an original sketch of him in a copy of the book...
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Seth: Clyde Fans Signed in 2011 with a Sketch of Abe Matchcard
More than two decades in the making, Clyde Fans (2019) is by far comic artist Seth's most ambitious work. An extremely nice copy of the slipcased book turned up on eBay with an original sketch of the...
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Seth's Clyde Fans: "That Woman"
Back in 2013, Seth was working through Part 4 of Clyde Fans, continuing to publish installments of his magnum opus in Palookaville, his hardcover comics magazine. A page of preliminary art depicts the...
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Seth's Clyde Fans: A Lonely Place
Abe Matchcard visits his estranged brother Simon's emotionally desolate home in a preliminary page from Clyde Fans, Seth's tragic take on capitalism and human failings, to oversimplify just a bit. The...
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Personna Advertising Art by Whitney Darrow, Jr.
Aside from his calling as a cartoonist, The New Yorker'sWhitney Darrow, Jr., produced a great quantity of commercial work. An undated drawing commissioned by the Leo Burnett Advertising Agency of...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #772
What on earth can be going on in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #772 from the issue dated September 20, 2021? My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Mick Stevens."I hate to mooch, but in...
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Virgil Partch for Personna Blades
A 1946 advertisement for Personna precision blades by Virgil Partch, or Vip, takes full advantage of this cartoonist's reputation for zany and oddball gags. The advertising copy seems tailor-made for...
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Sam Cobean for Drambuie
In the early 1950s, a magazine advertisement for Drambuie asked, "Is there a Chairman of the Board on your Christmas list?" Who knew how easy it could be to choose the right gift bottle and potentially...
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Richard Taylor: A Dram of Drambuie
In 1949, an advertisement that appeared in The New Yorker, and no doubt elsewhere, suggested that readers try a digestif imported from Scotland: "After dinner a dram of Drambuie." A dram is...
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Richard Taylor: Dinner Party Chat
What ever became of the dinner party? Richard Taylor'sNew Yorker cartoon of November 17, 1943, is set at a formal gathering where one guest seems to be out of his element."Professor Merton is a...
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Modernist Museum Copyist: Richard Taylor Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Over the years, cartoonists have had a lot to say about modern art. Let's face it, Richard Taylor's museum copyist would not be turning a gallery goer's head if she were copying an old master. But why...
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Richard Taylor's Copy of The Lost Girl by D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence's novel The Lost Girl was first published in the U.K. in 1920 and in the U.S. the following year. It followed Women in Love, also released in 1920. Cartoonist Richard Taylor's copy was...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #773
Should you turn your screen upside down for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #773 in the issue dated September 27, 2021? My caption is shown below, or perhaps above. The drawing is by Lonnie...
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Vip for Jensen Phonograph Needles
Jeff Nelson shares my admiration for the wildly creative advertising work of Virgil Partch, or Vip. Jeff writes:A few weeks back I happened to be browsing through a microfilm reel of Downbeat magazine,...
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Modernist Museum Copyist: Richard Taylor Proposed New Yorker Cover Art
Over the years, cartoonists have had a lot to say about modern art. Let's face it, Richard Taylor's museum copyist would not be turning a gallery goer's head if she were copying an old master. But why...
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The CartoonStock Caption Contest #139
We have arrived at the close of the CartoonStock Caption Contest #139. These contests will now last for two weeks through at least the end of the year. My three entries may be seen below. The drawing...
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Richard Taylor: Surrealistic Curves
Cartoonist Richard Taylor (1902-1970) frequently visited the subject of the female nude in art. An original illustration on that topic was sold on eBay in August and seems to be commenting on...
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Fear of the Surreal: Richard Taylor Preliminary New Yorker Cover Art
The website of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, lists a watercolor by Richard Taylor. It is described as a New Yorker magazine cover from 1937. That is very nearly correct. As the...
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