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Drawing Life with George Booth: The Kickstarter Animation Art Reward
Now that the short documentary "Drawing Life with George Booth" (2021) has been released, the filmmakers have gotten around to shipping the last of the rewards promised in their Kickstarter campaign....
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #784
Sit by the fireplace and enjoy my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #784—if you can. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by P. C. Vey."Is there something other than a good book...
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Charles Addams: The Addams Family Snowmen Holiday Cards
A holiday card published by Pomegranate repurposes Charles Addams's dust jacket art from his cartoon collection Favorite Haunts (1976). See how many characters from the Addams Family you can find. At...
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Barney Tobey: Chess Players
Barney Tobey's drawing of two men playing chess was originally sold by the Nicholls Gallery in New York to a collector in Lansing. It may or may not have been included in his 1976 exhibition there. It...
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Ronald Searle: Scrooge Dancing
Today Scott Burns shares with us an original drawing by Ronald Searle. He reports picking it up at "a flea market about 40 years ago for $75." Sweet deal. The artwork measures 13” x 18” and is executed...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #785
This town ain't big enough for the two of us, by which I mean me and The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #785 from the issue of December 20, 2021. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Drew...
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Ronald Searle: A Christmas 1987 Signed First Day Cover
It's Magic, the 1987 Royal Mail Christmas issue, was canceled in London with a commercial Hamley's postmark promoting "the finest toy shop in the world" on the first day cover. Thirteen years later,...
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My Entries in the Moment Cartoon Caption Contest for November/December 2021
This year Chanukah began on the Sunday night of Thanksgiving weekend, apparently inspiring Moment magazine's Cartoon Caption Contest for the November/December issue. My captions are below. The drawing...
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The CartoonStock Caption Contest #145
It's time to go with the floe in the CartoonStock Caption Contest #145. My three captions are shown below. The drawing is by Liam Francis Walsh."I told you I'll quit before all the ice melts.""I might...
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Otto Soglow: Four-in-Hand
It isn't often one sees a work of straight illustration by cartoonist Otto Soglow, creator of the Little King, but one such drawing with a Christmas theme turned up on eBay earlier this year. It has a...
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Peter Arno: Sandy Claus Arrives
In an advertisement in the January 1936 issue of Esquire, cartoonist Peter Arno (1904-1968) has clothed Santa (make that Sandy) Claus in tartan to promote the Grand Macnish liqueur scotch whiskey. From...
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The Floripes' Copy of Christmas is Together-Time by Charles M. Schulz
Christmas is Together-Time by Charles M. Schulz was published in 1964, one year before "A Charlie Brown Christmas" first appeared on television. While the book might not have the catchiest title, at...
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The 2021 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
I did not get to see the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree this year. But my wife did.The Rockefeller Center Christmas TreeDecember 23, 202103837
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Signed by Five: The New Yorker Book of Cartoon Puzzles and Games
The December 27 issue of The New Yorker is the the first Cartoons & Puzzles issue. As pointed out by Ink Spill this week, that combination of subjects readily brings to mind The New Yorker Book of...
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Please Pass the Hostess, Signed by Whitney Darrow, Jr.
Please Pass the Hostess is a collection of New Yorker cartoons by Whitney Darrow, Jr. Published in 1949, it is Darrow's second cartoon collection. After seventy years, this book remains a pleasure to...
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Garrett Price: Drawing Room Only Advertisement
The publisher must have been hoping demand would be standing room only for Garrett Price's cartoon collection Drawing Room Only, published in 1946. An advertisement in the book section of The New...
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License Plate for the Unhesitating?
In other words, this is not the license plate for those who prefer to sit around and do nothing:"YOU GOTA"New York State license plateI would have spelled it GOTTA, as in Tug McGraw's inspirational "Ya...
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A Happy New Year from Rea Irvin
Top-hatted and diapered, a smiling and chubby New Year's baby enjoys a glass of champagne and a cigar. This is the subject of an undated New Year's card from illustrator Rea Irvin. The seldom-seen...
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Maurice Sendak's Hillbilly Wild Thing
I'm not surprised to learn that children's book illustrator Maurice Sendak commemorated his 1997 visit to the University of Charleston in West Virginia by publishing a signed, limited edition...
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Fish Fantasy: A Fake Bidding War for a Mischa Richter Original?
For reasons I don't pretend to understand, cartoonist Mischa Richter's original New Yorker cartoons tend to be undervalued by the art market. Many examples in the blog archives show eBay sales in the...
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