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Charles Addams: Wednesday's Grades
Today there must be thousands upon thousands of fans who would love to own an original Addams Family cartoon from The New Yorker. Yesterday, some of those people had their chance to obtain a...
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Joe Dator: Dining Al Fresco
Joe Dator'sNew Yorker cartoon from the issue of October 24, 2016 depicts the construction workers in Charles Clyde Ebbets's iconic 1932 photograph Lunch Atop a Skyscraper. The staged image was first...
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Joe Dator: Pull Cord
In the eBay listing for his original New Yorker cartoon published in the issue of April 9, 2018, Joe Dator provides all the vital information, leaving a blogger nothing to do but copy it and try to...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #811
Life's a beach in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #811 from the issue of July 25, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Farley Katz."Isn't it ironic that they're all afraid of...
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The CartoonStock Caption Contest #156
The CartoonStock Caption Contest #156 is now the company's second competition that is pay-to-play. As before, five dollars gets you three entries and a chance at a $1,000 cash prize. Statistics tells...
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Dr. Seuss: Roughs from The Sneetches
Last week's Fine Books and Manuscripts auction at Sotheby's included two preliminary book illustrations by Dr. Seuss for his 1961 classic story "The Sneetches." The signed drawings are close to two of...
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Stanley Edgar Hyman: The Critic, Edited
 txtStanley Edgar HymaneBay listing ended May 25,...
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Dr. Seuss: Better Horses
A souvenir drawing by Dr. Seuss was presumably created for someone named Broder, unless that wasn't his name, who may have been a horse breeder, unless that wasn't his trade. It may just be a work of...
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Laurent de Brunhoff: Babar in Celesteville
With original Babar art, earlier work is often the more desirable. Laurent de Brunhoff's two-page spread fromBabar à la fête de Célesteville (1954) is already second-generation Babar—Jean de Brunhoff...
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Joe Dator: Throne Room Upgrade
The original art to Joe Dator'sNew Yorker cartoon of March 15, 2021 was sold by the artist on January 8 for an eBay best offer somewhere under $750. That's a royally good deal."How do you like the...
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Joe Dator: The Art of Procrastination
Joe Dator'sNew Yorker cartoon from the issue of January 6, 2020 describes a dilemma familiar to those who work at home, and perhaps to everyone else too. The original art was sold on eBay January 9 for...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #812
It's a dog's life in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #812 from the issue of August 1, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Carolita Johnson."See? With this getup, they won't even...
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Clare Briggs on Getting a Raise
It's natural, but probably not healthy, to compare one's financial success with that of one's neighbors. Money's a funny thing that way. But something rings false aboutClare Briggs's newspaper comic...
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Otto Soglow: Pieces for "The Talk of the Town"
As a go-to artist for The New Yorker's"Talk of the Town" section, Otto Soglow was without peer. He provided bold, simple designs in a signature style that can be recognized and appreciated from across...
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William Steig: The Financial Treadmill
A William Steig concept drawing shows a man walking on a treadmill, unhappily writing a check as he pursues riches that at least for the moment are out of his reach. Unsigned, the sheet is numbered 2...
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Saul Steinberg: Fabric Patterns
Saul Steinberg's fabric designs are, like much of his work, wildly inventive, but that doesn't mean it's easy to find a market for a collection of manufactured articles, specifically three garment...
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Joe Dator: Catching the Cliche
Joe Dator's cartoon for The New Yorker issue of March 29, 2021 takes an idiom we've all heard and somehow turns it into something unexpected. This is one of the reasons—there are many others—I am...
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Joe Dator: Westminster Dog's Revenge
Original art by cartoonist Joe Dator depicting a dog show winner was published in The New Yorker of June 14, 2021:The title of this post, Westminster Dog's Revenge, is Dator's own, swiped by me from...
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My Entry in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #813
A child plays at Napoleon in The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest #813 from the issue of August 8, 2022. My caption is shown below. The drawing is by Felipe Galindo who also answers to Feggo."See? We...
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William Steig: Reptiles I'm Always Meeting
Four original pen-and-ink book illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist William Steig were sold at auction yesterday in Clintondale, New York. They were originally published in Will Cuppy's book How to...
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