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Roger Angell's Business Card, Signed
Legendary sports writer and J. G. Taylor Spink Award winner Roger Angell passed away Friday at the age of 101. His business card as senior editor of The New Yorker, signed in 2015, was sold two years...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #803
This week, I made a down payment on an entry for The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #803 from the issue of May 23, 2022. My fast-talking caption is shown below. The drawing is by Feggo."A ride like...
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The World of Dr. Seuss Lunchbox
The World of Dr. Seuss lunchbox was produced in 1970 by Aladdin Industries, Inc., of Nashville. The lunchbox has images from The Cat in the Hat (1957), Horton Hears a Who! (1954), Happy Birthday to...
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The CartoonStock Caption Contest #153
In a new disappointment, the CartoonStock Caption Contest #153 seems to have ended prematurely, an example of the brand's all-too-frequent carelessness. A new contest, now with a thousand dollar prize,...
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William Steig: The Time Reader
The Time Reader as Seen by William Steig was apparently created for a Young & Rubicam Time magazine ad campaign aimed at procuring and encouraging more advertising for the magazine. The ad may not...
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William Steig: Four Harlequins
No doubt there's a story or two behind William Steig's four small harlequin drawings, hand-titled "Figures" on the backing of the frame. By the 1950s, Steig had fallen under the influence of Picasso...
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Edward Koren: Creature Sketches, January 1984
Michael Maslin: ...The first thing I thought to ask you when I was researching — I didn’t see it addressed out there anywhere — was: is there a story to how your “beasts” came about. Do you call them...
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Edward Koren For the Community Preparatory School
A sheet of original sketches by cartoonist Edward Koren was donated by the artist to the Community Preparatory School in Providence circa the late 1990s. It turned up on eBay six months ago where it...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #804
Here's the lowdown on my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #804 from the issue of May 30, 2022. My pet-friendly caption is shown below. The drawing is by P. C. Vey."Also, I think it's...
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Mischa Richter: Three Word-Based Illustrations
Of a group of three original word-based illustrations by cartoonist Mischa Richter, at least two of them refer to political events of the mid-1970s. The energy crisis was an issue throughout the 1970s,...
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David Pearce's Copy of Drinks Before Dinner by E. L. Doctorow
David from Manhattan brings us up to date on another book from the library of the late David Pearce, M.D., an ophthalmologist whose wonderful books we have had a number of occasions to view on the...
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To Edward Koren's Favorite Visionary
David from Manhattan presents us with some interesting scribblings from cartoonist Edward Koren to his "favorite visionary," ophthalmologist David Pearce. David writes:The drawings on a single sheet of...
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Edward Koren: A Model Sailing Ship
When cartoonist Edward Koren presented souvenir drawings to David Pearce, M.D., the good doctor made sure to have them sensibly framed. Here, a drawing of a model sailing ship was given as thanks for...
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Edward Koren: An Eye Chart
Today we have an Edward Koren drawing on The New Yorker's letterhead gratefully dedicated to one David, by now familiar to us as the ophthalmologist Dr. Pearce, who apparently prescribed lenses for the...
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Edward Koren: Greetings from Vermont
On New Yorker stationery, creased apparently from mailing, cartoonist Edward Koren sends "Greetings from Vermont" to the ophthalmologist David Pearce, MD. He uses the eye chart format twice here, with...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #805
What's the big deal with my entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #805 from the issue of June 6, 2022? My outsized caption is shown below. The drawing is by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby."Let's...
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A Bookplate Signed by Edward Koren
Sandy Maran's bookplate is treated by Edward Koren the same way the cartoonist treats any other blank space on a sheet of paper; he uses it to make a delightful drawing. Sandy did not treat it as a...
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Edward Koren: Subscription Clipper?
"Anyone can send for The New Yorker," asserts the 1986 ad in the magazine. Maybe so, but I doubt anyone could convince me to cut a subscription form out of my cherished copy of The New Yorker. Anyone,...
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Morris Lurie's Copy of Don't Talk to Strange Bears by Edward Koren
Moses "Morris" Lurie (30 October 1938 – 8 October 2014) was an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focused on the comic mishaps of...
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Edward Koren: Autographs by Mail
One doesn't have to be a Sherlock Holmes to plainly deduce that the index card signed and drawn upon by Edward Koren for autograph collector Clinton Ward was obtained by mail request. Koren, always...
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